Installing Portage on Other Distros

drakos7 · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 12:38 pm Post subject:

I have the same error message. I should have posted it. :oops:

I have not found a way around it yet.

vijeno · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 5

On my RedHat box, I'm getting (after emerge tar):

aux_get(): (1) couldn't open cache entry for sys-apps/tar-1.12.25-r1

As far as I've reviewed the sources, it looks for /var/cache/ebd/dep/sys-apps/tar-1.12.25-r1

...but what now?
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vijeno · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 5

Ohhh kay... an emerge regen obviously "re"constructs the
cache...

Now for the next challenge:

# emerge -p "[WHATEVERITRY]"

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "[WHATEVERITRY]" have been masked.
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when i try and run the `./setup.py install` command, i get this error message::

ribo · n00b Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 53

what would be really interesting if it could work on QNX or Be

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ixion · l33t Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 708

this is an excellent idea, but it is buggy and messy... something I have decided to abandon due to the shakiness of it all...

but anyway, here are some pointers I've discovered in my endeavors to create and lfs system with portage:

1. you have to create the wheel group and give it permission to 'su'
2. add the portage user and groups to /etc/passwd and /etc/group (respecitively) (emerge will complain about it and give you what you need to know, don't worry;))
3. download and install rsync source code (won't be able to use emerge, yet)
4. Create symlink of /usr/bin/rsync to point to /usr/local/bin/rsync
5. Emerge sync
6. copy /usr/bin/ebuild* /usr/sbin/ebuild* (NO SYMLINKS! it caused problems for me)
7. Before emerging tar, backup the two ebuild.sh's you just created and REMOVE --no-same-owner instances in each file. Do not change them to --same-owner, it causes permission problems (at least for me)

This is where I'm at:
while emerging 'tar' I get random make errors after getting a tar error with zlib. I'd love to keep going with this, but the sloppiness of it really isn't worth it, although it is an excellent idea, and I highly commend crichards for coming up with all this.
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delta407 · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:22 pm Post subject:

proxy · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:07 am Post subject:

just out of curiosity, what are the posibilities of getting portage running on say a solaris system (sparc). I realize that there are a few key binaries which will need to recompiled to the aparc arch, but in general as a python script based system i dont see why it should be terribly difficult.

also i would need to inject glibc, kerenel-source anything else that has a solaris equiv as part of base solaris OS.

typically, _most_ programs seem to compile fine for solaris so i dont think that will be main issue.

so, like i said, could anyone think of a way to tak this on? (assume i have gcc, python, etc installed for solaris).

I think it would be a very interesting and useful thing as an (occasional) solaris user.

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Epcylon · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Oslo, Norway

I am the maintainer of an unofficial apps installation here, where we install apps that are not on the sysadmins list of "things I want to support". For now we're building things manually from source, but that's really cumbersome and impractical.

So I was wondering... would it be possible to install portage and use it in this setting? We don't have root access, and everything has to be installed in /some/path/ instead of /usr/. Other aspects of gentoo are not needed, nor wanted, just portage and the ability to do things like: emerge xchat2

What would I need to do in order to make this work?
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synic · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 49 Location: SLC, Utah

I have written a small perl script that will read a slackware package database and create "inject" entries in the gentoo portage database. This will esentually let portage know all the packages that are already installed in slackware.

You can find it here:
http://www.4akwote.com/adam/convert

Note: I wrote this in 15 minutes and uploaded it to get feedback. I am aware that I am not the best programmer, and would like a real hacker to take a look at it. Keep in mind that you must run this on a slackware system with portage freshly installed, and you must let it finish to update the counter file correctly. I will also be working on this script, and upload updates as I finish them.

Thanks,

synic

David916 · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Posts: 60 Location: My basement

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Milamber · n00b Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 72 Location: Richmond, VA

how modifying emerge to take a parameter, say "--distrodir"
and also a paramter like "--configdir"
where the user could then use like :

emerge --distrodir redhat --configdir ~/emergeconfig

where ~/emergeconfig will contain the necessary files like make.conf, etc ?

would it be possible ?

David916 · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Posts: 60 Location: My basement

Anyone know if portage will work on an openbsd system?
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neuro_mancien · n00b Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Posts: 2

when i try to emerge something, i get a "!!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable." message.
What's this profile directory ?
TIA

Slinger · Apprentice Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 230

Can someone give me a link to the proper tarball? The one I downloaded from the mirror has no directory structure like the steps we are walked through on the first post of this thread.

TIA

neuro_mancien · n00b Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Posts: 2

Hello,
when i'm trying to emerge somethin, i get this message : "!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "tar" have been masked."

My accept keyword is set to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86", and i'm trying this as root.

When i try with --debug option, i get the same message :

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essetee · n00b Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Belgium

I use LFS, why should I use the portage tree from Gentoo. Exemple : KDE 3.2 takes 9 hours to compile on my LFS, on my gentoo it takes 32 hours.

So, better to compile my own stuff on my LFS system, rather than use Gentoo's portage system.
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hackertype · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 32

This script gets portage installed on my i686 redhat 8.0 linux box:

dev-null-devil · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 93

I've seen many people installing portage on slackware and it works really good for them. However, with this information, you can gentooify any linux system, this has been something i've been dreaming of for a long time, i'll try to install it on slack tomorrow.
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ricgal · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 18 Location: Winnipeg, MB

to fix a Mandrake 9.0 install that could not complete.

Think the cdrom was too old to read the burnt cds properly, perhaps. Compaq deskpro 300 mhz system.)

Anyway, I am reading and rereading this. I have some of the tarballs downloaded onto a spare hard drive that is temp resident of my Mandrake 7.1 machine. The archiver in 7.1 can't seem to open bz2 files, either.

Really need to get up to date here, I see. Sorry for the rambling. :roll: