Re: [gentoo-user] Portage on RHEL4?

[Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>]

Randy Barlow wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> 	I've got a fun little project to install portage on RHEL 4.
> Unfortunately, the powers that be won't allow me to put Gentoo, so I
> figured I'd do the best I can and put portage :)
> 

If there are powers that won't allow you to install Gentoo I think it is
better to discontinue your fun little project because installing portage
and using it will turn your system into Gentoo.

> 	So I pulled the tar ball, and put the binaries where they go and such.
>  I set my profile up, and my make.conf.  Now I try to emerge -e system,
> and everything goes well until it gets to gcc.  At this stage, I get
> hundreds of errors along the lines of einfo, eend, and ebegin being
> commands that are "not found".
> 

So it may be too late for you to stop. Then I would recommend you to
read about bootstrapping [1],  gentoo stage1 installation [2] and "Linux
from scratch" [3].

Here are some links where you could start:

1) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#stage12
2)
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_-_The_Gentoo_Developers_Method_with_NPTL_and_2.6_from_Stage1
3) http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

But I have to warn you again: If there are reasons that you shouldn't
install Gentoo you better not. Following the steps in [1] or [2] will
lead you to finally assimilating the previous system and turning it into
Gentoo.

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel

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