[ltp] Gentoo on thinkpad?

[Michael Gaber]

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Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:13, Richard Neill wrote:
> 
>> I didn't realise this. I know you can get a stage 3 install - but that
>> doesn't give me any of the GUI applications.
> 
> Oh, yes it does.  X, OpenOffice, KDE or Gnome, full build chain.  You'll have 
> a basic working system just like Debian or Kubuntu.
> 
>> How do you get binary 
>> packages?
> 
> That's what a stage 3 install is.
> 
>> If using binaries, are these regularly updates (eg with 
>> security updates?)
> 
> The install CD's provide the regular updates.  There may be an intermediate 
> package update, but I don't know - the install CD is updated a couple of 
> times a year - I installed and started adding what I wanted.  it's 
> incremental after that.
> 
>> Could I, initially, choose to install Gentoo as if it 
>> were Mandrake (i.e. selecting a package repository, installing a few
>> hundred packages), and then recompile the system as I become familiar
>> with it?
> 
> Yes, with the caveat that some of the packages you want may not be included in 
> the stage 3 package setup.  Once you chose optimaztion flags and begin 
> recompiling, you can't use pre-determined packages any more - you've stepped 
> away from the "once size kinda fits all" settings for pre-packaged software 
> and you want to compile from source to get everything to fit.  But it will 
> fit very well.
> 
>>>> Has anyone else done this successfully?
> 
> Several times on several Thinkpads.
> 
>>> If you have a faster machine available, you can always use distcc to
>>> compile most of your packages.  When you set distcc up on the laptop,
>>> put the faster machine first in the list of distcc hosts, such as:
>>>
>>>    /usr/bin/distcc-config --set-hosts "192.168.1.2 127.0.0.1"
>>>
>>> where 192.168.1.2 is the other, more powerful machine.  This will cause
>>> distcc to use the other machine preferentially for compiling.  emerges
>>> will go noticeably faster.
>> That sounds useful. Does the faster machine have to run gentoo as well?
> 
> It has to have the same complier.  Beyond knowing that, I haven't tried it.  
> Put in ccache as well - it helps with or without distcc.  My TransNote and 
> T42 distcc'ing together will blow through 'emerge -e world' in about than 24 
> hours if memory serves.

it should run gentoo, because there are custom compiler-patches (pie and 
ssp) which are not on a knoppix or some "distcc-live-cd". That's why 
using them will give you segfaults.


> 
> Cheers,
> Bret


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