Bit late, but FETCHCOMMAND tweaking is a bad idea - it will affect all your ebuilds. If wget doesn't support what you're trying to do, you can either:
* set SRC_URI to a filename, instead of a URL, and use RESTRICT=fetch. Have the user (or a different program) fetch the files into /var/cache ...

What do you mean? As far as I know, cross-emerge changes PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT, so you might have to add additional repositories to /usr/<target>/etc/portage/repos.conf instead of /etc/portage/repos.conf, but other than that, it should work identically to any other portage configuration.

mid-kid wrote:unless something like steve starts existing to pause processes trying to acquire more memory until it frees up

I just learned about steve's --min-memory-avail option which is... very interesting. I will be trialling it, see how it goes.

Is it time for you to play with steve ?

Haha, I've had my eye on it since it was announced on the front page, and ninja (finally) supports the jobserver. It's a really awesome project. I'll definitely play with it for experiments where I'm building a lot of things in bulk, but for regular updates ...

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Crossdev can't be used.
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I've never tried this myself, but I'm not entirely certain why?
You can create a cross-toolchain for x86_64-mylaptop-linux-gnu, set CHOST=x86_64-mylaptop-linux-gnu on the target system's make.conf, and every build system will treat this as cross-compilation ...

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You should link to your repo, mid-kid. I can't remember how I found it, some time ago now, but I think it'd be pretty good reading for someone looking to learn a structured approach to Gentoo configuration.

Thanks for the flattering words. I'd like to add a disclaimer that I don't ...

/etc/portage/make.conf/aa-base :
# Enable --ask and quiet down some noisy features.
# I want these to be the defaults, really.
CLEAN_DELAY=0
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --nospinner --quiet-unmerge-warn"

/etc/portage/make.conf/ab-binpkg :
# Enable binary packages as a local cache
EMERGE_DEFAULT ...

I realize that this thread is now 4 months old, but I want to add my 2ct to this in case anyone's still affected by this.

One thing is simply that modern psd doesn't really *hard-depend* on systemd. Previously, it had a USERS="" key in the configuration, indicating what users to "su" as and symlink ...

Like posts above mention, I ran "emerge -vpc sys-libs/zlib" and re-emerged all packages that still directly depended on it. However, I still can't for the life of me get it to resolve the correct thing:


PocketRocket ~ # emerge -puDU --usepkg=n --changed-deps --changed-slot @world sys-libs/zlib-ng ...

This is normal. You have two options: You can either watch things break and rebuild packages as necessary, or use the lto-rebuild script[1] to find and rebuild all relevant packages.

[1]: https://github.com/InBetweenNames/gento ... to-rebuild

I suggest using a command like:
qlist -Iv | xargs sudo qlop -Mma | sort -k 2 -nr | head -n 10
In order to obtain the 10 longest-to-compile packages on any given system.

For me, that is:
dev-qt/qtwebengine: 16327 average for 1 merge
sys-devel/gcc: 12383 average for 1 merge
app-office/libreoffice ...

You might be hitting a combination of USE flags that don't have packages available also. Keep in mind that only the packages part of @system for the profiles listed in the news post are available.
Gentoo might never be useful as a purely-binary distribution, but the binrepos are supposed to make it ...

I think it's worth pointing out, as someone on the older scale of gen Z, I know that a lot of my peers never bothered with learning how to use forum software. While we (certainly I) did experience the latter part of the growth of the internet, we quickly flocked to "platforms" and social medias when ...

For those opposed to running udev, what is the motivation? Are there specific technical problems with the released udev we use today? Is this a philosophical objection since the systemd project hosts the udev code, and systemd's most active contributors have a history of questionable decisions ...

Thanks for the replies, this is all very interesting. Unfortunately, I currently don't have the time to try different approaches, so it'll remain mostly a thought experiment for now.

I think the LVM solution is very interesting, but I'm not sure it won't have any drawbacks, aside from the obvious ...

Hello, I rarely write on this forum, but I felt this was the right way to discuss this, so here I am.

As of the recent years, I've been upgrading my machine on about a monthly basis. This allows me to be sure that no unexpected changes or breakage happens during the month, and allows me to ...

The metadatas in the tarball must say root:root; it is enough to ask tar to ignore the ownerships while creating the tarball. No need to really touch the files.


Until very recently (somewhere in the last 3ish years) it still used tar-1.13 for compatibility reasons. I'm not sure if that version ...

Slackware's source is a collection of standalone scripts with no inter-dependent working, except when sometimes one script calls another.
They're all written with many shell-y assumptions in mind, as many, many of the scripts in various source tarballs will break with spaces and special characters ...

I get the rationale for dropping the hard fork, but after reading the sys-fs/udev ebuild, I can't help but wonder if eudev wouldn't be better off becoming a build harness to more easily build udev without systemd, as well as pre-applying the openembedded patches, and whatever other goodies non ...

I didn't end up solving my first issue, but the second issue can be solved by generating a proper binhost directory, and then running something akin to: It's not the prettiest, but it works for what I needed to.

what happens if you use -k instead of -K (use the pretend option to see what it would do without doing anything)

Same thing because all the @system packages, including build dependencies, are present as binpkgs.

EDIT: Didn't notice the edit in the previous post until right now
How did you build ...

Unfortunately, there is only a partial support for --root.
It works most of the times, but some particular packages don't.
Creating system users for daemons can fail.

That's a shame. I was hoping I would be able to avoid the issues with binpkgs...
I guess I can see if I can figure out a command ...

Hi, I'm trying to kickstart a chroot from a full set of @system binpkgs I've built, but running:
emerge --root /chroot -K @system
Doesn't install everything.

I've read around the `emerge` man page, and stumbled upon a few flags that ended up installing a "fuller" @system set:
emerge --root ...

Sorry I haven't replied in a while, been busy.

Look in /dev/snd. If it exists and is populated, your kernel is probably good.

The root cause of your problem looks to be that your default sound card is HDMI, so all your sounds are going there.
You need to tell ALSA to use sound card 1, (with the ...

Hello, I'm using ArchLinux and decided to try compiling my own kernel.
Well, I'm trying to figure out how to get my sound card working, and figured this was the best place to ask for help.

All I know is this:
On the default -ARCH kernel, it used the snd-hda-intel module, and even though it crashed ...