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* [gentoo-dev] Where are the x86/i686 2006.0 packages?
@ 2006-03-28 23:33 Nick Rout
  2006-03-29  0:07 ` Andrew Gaffney
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nick Rout @ 2006-03-28 23:33 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

Wanting to do a quick GRP install on a couple of machines this weekend.
Am told by the install docs that the GRP packages for i686 (or x86, its
a bit confusing) are on the Installer LiveCd.

Well I cannot find 'em. I have the livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso
mounted on /mnt/loop and the image.squashfs thats on the root of the cd
loop mounted on /mnt/loop2. I can't find a single tar.bz2 file on there
except a few, mainly relevant to genkernel

nick@storage /mnt/loop $ find -name *.tar.bz2
./snapshots/portage-20060123.tar.bz2
nick@storage /mnt/loop $ cd ../loop2
nick@storage /mnt/loop2 $ sudo find -name *.tar.bz2
./lib/firmware.tar.bz2
./lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2
./usr/livecd/metadata.tar.bz2
./usr/share/genkernel/pkg/busybox-1.00-rt-mdstart.plasmaroo.tar.bz2
./usr/share/genkernel/pkg/devfsd-1.3.25-dietlibc-kernel25.tar.bz2
./usr/share/genkernel/pkg/dmraid-1.0.0.rc9.tar.bz2
./usr/share/genkernel/pkg/klibc-1.1.16.tar.bz2
./usr/share/genkernel/pkg/module-init-tools-0.9.15-pre4.tar.bz2
./usr/share/genkernel/pkg/modutils-2.4.26.tar.bz2
./usr/share/genkernel/pkg/udev-077.tar.bz2


I also looked inside the portage snapshot to see if they had been
sneakily included in /usr/portage/packages, but no!

So where the hell are they? (please :)

-- 
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>


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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Where are the x86/i686 2006.0 packages?
  2006-03-28 23:33 [gentoo-dev] Where are the x86/i686 2006.0 packages? Nick Rout
@ 2006-03-29  0:07 ` Andrew Gaffney
  2006-03-29  1:00   ` Nick Rout
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Gaffney @ 2006-03-29  0:07 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

Nick Rout wrote:
> Wanting to do a quick GRP install on a couple of machines this weekend.
> Am told by the install docs that the GRP packages for i686 (or x86, its
> a bit confusing) are on the Installer LiveCd.

There are no binary packages. The installer uses the files on the livecd 
directly. There is a function to copy a package from the LiveCD to the chroot, 
although, unfortunately, it didn't make it into the 0.3 release of the installer 
included on the LiveCD.

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Andrew Gaffney                            http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Where are the x86/i686 2006.0 packages?
  2006-03-29  0:07 ` Andrew Gaffney
@ 2006-03-29  1:00   ` Nick Rout
  2006-03-29  1:25     ` Andrew Gaffney
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nick Rout @ 2006-03-29  1:00 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev


On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:07:30 -0600
Andrew Gaffney wrote:

> Nick Rout wrote:
> > Wanting to do a quick GRP install on a couple of machines this weekend.
> > Am told by the install docs that the GRP packages for i686 (or x86, its
> > a bit confusing) are on the Installer LiveCd.
> 
> There are no binary packages. The installer uses the files on the livecd 
> directly. There is a function to copy a package from the LiveCD to the chroot, 
> although, unfortunately, it didn't make it into the 0.3 release of the installer 
> included on the LiveCD.

Thanks, so does the installer do a kind of quickpkg on the live system 
followed by emerge --usepkg inside the chroot?

This is unfortunate because I have found the installer a little flaky.
I'd prefer to do an install manually then be able to do emerge --usepkg
against a directory full of packages.

Is there some way I can get the functionality you speak of? Is there
somewhere in CVS I can look at?

Cheers.




-- 
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>

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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Where are the x86/i686 2006.0 packages?
  2006-03-29  1:00   ` Nick Rout
@ 2006-03-29  1:25     ` Andrew Gaffney
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Gaffney @ 2006-03-29  1:25 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

Nick Rout wrote:
> Thanks, so does the installer do a kind of quickpkg on the live system 
> followed by emerge --usepkg inside the chroot?

The installer does a few "dirty" things to emulate portage like copying the 
files for a particular package into the proper image dir in the chroot, 
executing `ebuild` a few times with the proper arguments, and then merging the 
files from the image dir into the "live" filesystem (the chroot directory).

> This is unfortunate because I have found the installer a little flaky.
> I'd prefer to do an install manually then be able to do emerge --usepkg
> against a directory full of packages.

Please file bugs (Gentoo Release Media -> Installer) for any of the problems 
you've found with the installer. I can only fix them if someone tells me about them.

> Is there some way I can get the functionality you speak of? Is there
> somewhere in CVS I can look at?

You can fetch the latest CVS snapshot from my devspace. 
http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/gli/ always has a link to the latest. Unpack the 
snapshot, change to the src/ directory, and run './GLIPortage.py'. That's the 
module that does most of the portage voodoo. I've added some code at the end to 
allow it to run standalone to perform steps like creating the dynamic stage3 and 
copying a particular package into a chroot. If you have more questions about it, 
feel free to drop by #gentoo-installer.

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Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project
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