Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 21 August 2011 02:08:51 Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>    
>> Could I just export the entire laptop - everything from the root
>> directory and below - and chroot into that over the network? Then I
>> wouldn't even need to emerge -k...
>>      
> No, I tried that and got myself tied in knots - well, actually it was the
> whole portage tree that I exported, not the entire system. I forget what
> went wrong now, but it's definitely cleaner to tell the server to build the
> packages and the client to install from them. The emerge -k step is quick
> too, and you have the advantage that you can see whether the packages are
> actually there, unless you've switched colours off or not specified -v. (I
> once found that they weren't there, which prompted me to go looking for the
> config problem. Like Dale, I'm quite a good tester!)
>
> You just have to make sure that the chroot is identical to the client.
>
>    

Since you mentioned me.  I wish I could set up a quicky from my 4 core 
64 bit machine to compile 32 bit packages for a older 2GHz machine that 
belongs to a friend.  I was going to put Mandriva on it but the CD won;t 
boot up properly.  It stops at starting udev.  Grrrrr.

How hard is it to set up a 64 bit machine to compile programs for a 32 
bit system?

Dale

:-)  :-)