[gentoo-user] Portage on RHEL4?

[gentoo-user] Portage on RHEL4?

[Randy Barlow]

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 :)

	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".

	I found some message board threads about people trying to do this, but
they were dated to 2002, and they used the inject emerge command which
is now deprecated (and the packages they said to inject no longer
exist!)  Could someone guide me in the right direction?  Anyone know
what the e commands are and how to get them?  Anyone know of a guide
that I haven't found that talks about how to install portage on a
general linux system?  Thanks!

Randy
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage on RHEL4?

[Zac Medico]

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Randy Barlow wrote:
> exist!)  Could someone guide me in the right direction?  Anyone know
> what the e commands are and how to get them?  Anyone know of a guide
> that I haven't found that talks about how to install portage on a
> general linux system?  Thanks!

You should be able to use the "prefix" branch of portage on there:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Portage-prefix

Zac
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage on RHEL4?

[Daniel Iliev]

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.

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Daniel

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage on RHEL4?

[Mark Kirkwood]

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 :)
> 

I would recommend attacking this at the "Business" level:

1/ Find out why they (think they) want Redhat.
2/ See if you can get agreement to build a Gentoo demo system to show 
them that Gentoo is better (it is typically gonna perform better at least!).

Cheers

Mark
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage on RHEL4?

[Randall Barlow]

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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> I would recommend attacking this at the "Business" level:
> 
> 1/ Find out why they (think they) want Redhat.
> 2/ See if you can get agreement to build a Gentoo demo system to show
> them that Gentoo is better (it is typically gonna perform better at
> least!).

I actually went this route in January but it was no go.  So to update,
I've been thinking that I may try to install Gentoo in a chrooted
environment so I at least have access to portage that way.  There are
other power that be over the powers that be who may be able to help me
get a native Gentoo system also :)
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