Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-13 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2007. 04. 13, péntek keltezéssel 23.16-kor b.n. ezt írta: > Hi, > > I have looked a bit for this but I've found nothing. > However I'd like to see some tutorial/advice/whatever about it. > > m. Hi, Try out catalyst, which is part of portage. It is easy to create a custom own livecd. >From liv

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-14 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:16:58PM +, b.n. wrote: > Hi, > > I have looked a bit for this but I've found nothing. > I'd like to create an installable disk ready-to-install on another old, low > specs machine that cannot bear a Gentoo install by itself. > > The logic would be: > -

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Michal 'vorner' Vaner, > Now you can mount /var remotely (portage compiles there and needs lots > of space) - this way you need only the space for installed programs, not > compiling and compile on other machine using distcc. portage can use any directory you like for its workspace, you don

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-16 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello, On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:53:54PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Michal 'vorner' Vaner, > > > Now you can mount /var remotely (portage compiles there and needs lots > > of space) - this way you need only the space for installed programs, not > > compiling and compile on other machine

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:01:24 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > > > Now you can mount /var remotely (portage compiles there and needs > > > lots of space) - this way you need only the space for installed > > > programs, not compiling and compile on other machine using distcc. > > > > portage

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > The last time I looked, portage compiles were Gentoo-specific too. If > you want to change where portage uses for its workspace, it is much > safer to use the provided configuration settings than move the whole > of a system-critical directory to an

RE: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Wayne Oliver
> -Original Message- > From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 April 2007 11:01 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with > gentoo? > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Wayne Oliver wrote: > > Going slightly OT here, but does anyone know which ebuilds are the > > big ones using lots of space in /var/tmp when compiling? Apart from > > OOo that is :-) > > > > alan > > Just guessing now I would add QT and Mozilla. I ask because I need to re

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:46:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I ask because I need to rezise my /var to minimize wasted space. I know > for sure I have remerged QT and mozilla (with USE= -gnome) recently > without problems with just over 1G free. I hate having 5G lying there > doing nothing until

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:46:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I ask because I need to rezise my /var to minimize wasted space. I > > know for sure I have remerged QT and mozilla (with USE= -gnome) > > recently without problems with just over 1G free.

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:41:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Set PORTAGE_TMPDIR to somewhere where the space would be useful at > > other times too, like /home. > > That's a good idea - I didn't think of that No, I did - which means there's probably some hidden gotcha waiting in it :( > > Or

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20:27:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Or change it for OOo builds only.   > > > > I keep forgetting to do stuff like that and only find out 4 hours into > > an 8 hour emerge :-) > > I wonder if you could do this in /etc/portage/env? You cannot. Setting CHECKREQS_ACTION="

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-20 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:35:25PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:01:24 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > > > portage can use any directory you like for its workspace, you don't > > > have to remote mount /var to achieve this. You could mount /var/tmp > > > over NFS

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-20 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:00:51AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > The last time I looked, portage compiles were Gentoo-specific too. If > > you want to change where portage uses for its workspace, it is much > > safer to use the provided conf