From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Es0qL-00062O-QG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:41:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBTGcZUV031637; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:38:35 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBTGXCha005533 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:33:13 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7F71803D for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:33:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22769-06-3 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:33:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.52] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632F518037 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:33:11 -0600 (CST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <200512291817.17017.uwix@iway.na> References: <1135815639.43b32bd72d574@webmail.ntplx.net> <1135816209.43b32e119b8f7@webmail.ntplx.net> <43B3FFCA.2020105@hermes.cam.ac.uk> <200512291817.17017.uwix@iway.na> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Jolet Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:33:10 -0600 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: 3f660be8-b037-43ab-b0e6-84330a7107d9 X-Archives-Hash: 04ffcec4f815bb03154d2ec8037ab96a > > You cannot really stay current on binaries but you can gradually > convert your > binary installation to a self-compiled one. You said above that > your *main* > machine was a laptop with insufficient harddisk space and CPU > power. That > implies you do have at least one other box. You could keep the > whole portage > tree, including the sources, on that other box and nfs mount it. > Alternatively, if that other box has got more CPU power, you can > compile the > whole thing there, tar everything (except the portage tree) up, > boot the > laptop from a livecd, get the tarball over and ... well ... untar > it. ;-) > That's what I usually do with a new box, so I don't have to start from > scratch. > bear in mind that this is more difficult if they two machines don't have the same architecture/use flags. be careful with this approach. If you optimize a compile for a p4 and try to run it on a p3...well, that might or might not work. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list