Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Thomas M wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 December 2010 9:18:30 pm Dale wrote:
>    
>> Frank Peters wrote:
>>      
>>> On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:26:00 -0600
>>>
>>> Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Now I have a question.  How do I tell Gentoo to make it pure 64 or a mix
>>>> of 32 and 64?  I have read about this but I don't think I have actually
>>>> seen where it is set.  Is it a profile selection, USE flag or something
>>>> else?
>>>>          
>>> You have to make a symbolic link, /etc/make.profile, to a particular
>>> profile in /usr/share/portage/profiles, i.e. either the multilib (64/32)
>>> or the no-multilib (64-bit) profile.  Also, the USE flag "multilib"
>>> indicates to the compiler that both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries should
>>> be built.
>>>
>>> Check the Gentoo manual for all the details.  You'd best get used to
>>> reading the manual early.  Everything is in there.
>>>
>>>        
>>>> If I decide on one then want to switch to the other, does that require a
>>>> reinstall or just a change in settings and a recompile of world?
>>>>          
>>> I'm not sure.  It's best to check the manual.
>>>
>>> Frank Peters
>>>        
>> I know about the profiles.  I been running Gentoo a while.  It's just
>> been x86 to this point.  When I run eselect list profile, nothing 64 bit
>> shows up at all.  I guess this is because of my settings in make.conf
>> tho.  Since I can't see the FULL list, I had to ask.  Could someone post
>> the output of eselect list profile from a 64 bit system?  That would
>> clear up some muddy water for me.
>>
>> I'm making notes on all this.  I hope to get it right on the first
>> install.  ;-)
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>      
> I think profile lists are dependent on which stage3 you install: x86 or amd64.
> I think the reason you don't see amd64 profile right now is because you
> currently don't have amd64 stage3 yet in your PC. I could be wrong though.
>
> I personally run multilib.
>
> $ eselect profile list
> Available profile symlink targets:
>    [1]   default/linux/amd64/10.0
>    [2]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop
>    [3]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome
>    [4]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde *
>    [5]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/developer
>    [6]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib
>    [7]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/server
>    [8]   hardened/linux/amd64
>    [9]   hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib
>    [10]  selinux/2007.0/amd64
>    [11]  selinux/2007.0/amd64/hardened
>    [12]  selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64
>    [13]  selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/desktop
>    [14]  selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/developer
>    [15]  selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/hardened
>    [16]  selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/server
>
> Thomas
>
>    

I figured it was something like that.  I also know now that the kde 
profile is multilib too.  I figured it was.  I'm learning.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)