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paulwill2000
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 Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 11:35 pm Post subject: GRP Packages - Questions? |
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okay, first... is there anywhere on the net that I can get more than just the ones on the CD?
second... how do I make GRP packages out of the software I emerge / install...?
I'm wanting to make a pseudo-Gentoo distribution with more variety of pre-compiled packages (mostly for personal use)...
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rac
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| Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 11:50 pm Post subject: Re: GRP Packages - Questions? |
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| paulwill2000 wrote: | | second... how do I make GRP packages out of the software I emerge / install...? |
I'm not sure if GRP is the right terminology here, because the "Reference" implies (to me, at least) that it is some sort of official, designed-to-run-on-anything binary. In order to have emerge build binary packages that are suited for the environment you compiled them in as backups, the easiest way is to add "buildpkg" to your FEATURES line in /etc/make.conf.
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paulwill2000
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| Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I guess what I meant is are there any other pre-compiled packages for download for Gentoo? (Similar to the ones on the CD) |
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Arthur Vandelay
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Not trying to sound dissmissive but, pre-compiled packages for gentoo defeats the whole purpose of gentoo in the first place. Personally I use GRP for KDE because it takes me 24 hours to compile the whole thing. But anything else can be compiled in minutes. So where is the benefit in generic binaries that can't leverage the strengths of individual configs?
You might as well run redhat. |
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pjp
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 1:09 am Post subject: |
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Just the GRP.
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paulwill2000
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 2:59 am Post subject: |
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I know it defeats the purpose of Gentoo in some ways...
Unfortunately, trying to compile all of that software on my PII 300 Laptop takes MANY days... and quite frankly, I just want to get it up and running...
I don't like Redhat or Mandrake cause of all the proprietary stuff thrown in... I think Gentoo is great cause you put EXACTLY just what you want on it... But I don't have several days to wait on the system to install... |
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rac
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| paulwill2000 wrote: | | Unfortunately, trying to compile all of that software on my PII 300 Laptop takes MANY days... and quite frankly, I just want to get it up and running... |
Do you have a fast desktop machine you can use as a compiler? If so, then make a chroot designed for your laptop on it, set up the environment appropriately, and then emerge things with the buildpkg option.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 3:44 am Post subject: |
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| unfortunately not... I wish I did... my desktop is only running at 450MHz... I sold my Athlon XP 1800+ system cause I needed the money... |
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