* Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstructing a Gentoo Installer Computer
@ 2006-05-31 16:51 99% ` Rumen Yotov
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From: Rumen Yotov @ 2006-05-31 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw
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Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:neil@digimed.co.uk]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:57 AM
>> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstructing a Gentoo Installer Computer
>>
>> On Wed, 31 May 2006 10:46:18 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
>>
>>> I was hoping to
>>> rescue the additional time for the snort install etc by being able
> to
>>> just recompile stuff rather than have to start over from the
> beginning,
>>> the system is currently running, so I may just end up putting off
> the
>>> rebuild till this summer when I have a bit more time -- I was hoping
> to
>>> be able to change the use flags, build a new kernel and be done with
> it,
>>> but that doesn't look to be the case
>> It should be the case. it's not much different from doing a stage 3
>> install then changing USE flags etc. I've done that with no problems.
>> What went wrong when you tried this before, or was it a case of
> changing
>> too much at once so you couldn't find the source of the problem?
>>
>> However, Michael's point about starting afresh with a hardened setup
> is a
>> good one. It sounds much safer for a security box.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Neil Bothwick
>>
>> "getting performance from an Amiga is like getting water from a
> sponge,
>> getting performance from Windows is like getting blood from a stone -
>> after banging my head against the stone several times I got some
> blood"
>> Author of Lightwave 3D
> [Timothy A. Holmes]
>
> Neil:
>
> the problem before was an incomplete understanding of how the USE Flags
> worked, and a mis-understanding of some advice that I was given. The
> procedure that I used last time was:
>
> rebuild the kernel
> Set use to USE="-*"
> Emerge -e world
>
> That procedure with the USE flags is what killed me. What I should have
> done -- it now appears was to set use to blank (or comment it out) and
> allow it to use the base flags from the profile. But trying to
> recompile from base with all use flags specifically excluded is what
> began to break stuff
>
> TIM
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> Timothy A. Holmes
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Hi,
Don't just wipe out all USE-flags IIRC you'll need "readline ncurses..."
Search mail-list archives for "minimal USE flags", a year or more ago
(mail was from ciaranm IIRC).
HTH.Rumen
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