Thanks Grish Can I compile binary packages for a different architecture? My desktop is Athlon-xp, my portable i686...
So on my desktop, binary packages should be build with i686, but emerging from source should be athlon-xp. Kind regards Guy On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 21:42, Grish wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > | Hello > | > | I've been using Gentoo on my desktops for a couple of weeks now, > | and I really like it. So I wanted to fit my laptop with it, it's a > | PII 366 Mhz with 128 MB Ram. > | > | But it is way to slow to compile stuff from source (vi might still > | work, but KDE or even system would take a lifetime. > > > You can build the binary packages on your desktop systems, then > transfer them to your laptop. Just start installing new packages on > your desktops with emerge -b from now on. (Binary packages will appear > in /usr/portage/packages/All.) Copy the binary packages over to the > laptop, and use emerge -k <> to install them. > > Using the same USE variables on the laptop and desktops is helpful, > but not required. If you want to use seperate ones, you'll find > yourself building all packages twice on your desktop. > > Finally, if you have a package already installed on one of your > desktops that you are satisfied with and would like to put on the > laptop, you can use quickpkg (might need to merge it in, I forget...) > to grab the existing binaries and put them into a binary package. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQE/v8oeVo//RA50KO0RAhUpAKCFIieJpNyhB8O9IKy8Zv0qDt0jtACdF4Yi > Q2/sQPeMIoUgi5j44g9d/Mw= > =9Isk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- ______________________________________________________________________ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux user #249404 - September 1997 ______________________________________________________________________ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
