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kroenecker
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 Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:48 am Post subject: Total newbie |
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Let me start by saying that once upon a time I used to use LFS. When I was living in Japan, I would spend odd hours of the night after drinks and debauchery fiddling. As a result the feeling of compiling my own stuff has grown on me and I have to say that Gentoo is utterly fantastic!
Now I have a few questions:
1) If I fill around with my use variable in make.conf, should I recompile the entire system? If I were to do such a thing, what is the command for that?
2) I have a 6600 GT express. I found the following nifty info below:
=media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.7167
=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7167-r2
=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7167-r1
which I placed in my package.keywords file under portage. I quickly understood that this allows me to emerge nvidia-kernel,glx and settings so that the above packages are used, but I was wondering:
Where do I go to find out what packages are even available?
And how do I determine which revisions to use?
That's all for now.
Did I mention that Gentoo rocks? ........How is it pronounced? jen(ny)-two? or (a)gain-two?  |
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Dlareh
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:54 am Post subject: Re: Total newbie |
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| kroenecker wrote: | Let me start by saying that once upon a time I used to use LFS. When I was living in Japan, I would spend odd hours of the night after drinks and debauchery fiddling. As a result the feeling of compiling my own stuff has grown on me and I have to say that Gentoo is utterly fantastic!
Now I have a few questions:
1) If I fill around with my use variable in make.conf, should I recompile the entire system? If I were to do such a thing, what is the command for that? |
To rebuild with new CFLAGS (only worth it if they have significantly changed):
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For new USE flags:
| Quote: | 2) I have a 6600 GT express. I found the following nifty info below:
=media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.7167
=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7167-r2
=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7167-r1
which I placed in my package.keywords file under portage. I quickly understood that this allows me to emerge nvidia-kernel,glx and settings so that the above packages are used, but I was wondering:
Where do I go to find out what packages are even available? |
emerge -s or packages.gentoo.org are the official methods, but emerge -s is painfully slow. I strongly prefer:
| Code: | emerge --sync && emerge eix && update-eix
eix <packagename> |
In the future you should run update-eix after an emerge --sync if you need to update the eix database to include the latest packages.
| Quote: | | And how do I determine which revisions to use? |
Try the latest, and work back from there. i.e. I'd first try the following in package.keywords:
| Code: | media-video/nvidia-settings
media-video/nvidia-glx
media-video/nvidia-kernel |
There is usually no need to use = and choose a particular version.
| Quote: | | Did I mention that Gentoo rocks? ........How is it pronounced? jen(ny)-two? or (a)gain-two? |
jen-two |
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kroenecker
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks!  |
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