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Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server ProjectGentoo and the Linux Terminal Server ProjectPosted Jan 11, 2007 7:52 UTC (Thu) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)Parent article: Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server Project
>One feature that makes portage powerful for embedded setups and How is this fundamentally different from rpm --root /opt/ltsp ... ?
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Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server Project Posted Jan 11, 2007 14:46 UTC (Thu) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846) [Link] rpm is a low-level program for working with individual packages; the Gentoo equivalent of that is ebuild. By contrast, emerge is the high-level package manager which will install all your needed dependencies etc. In the RPM universe, that role is handled by yum and apt-rpm.
The question is, does yum allow you to install some packages into a different root? (I don't run Fedora, so I have no idea.)
using yum to build a chroot Posted Jan 11, 2007 20:53 UTC (Thu) by scottt (subscriber, #5028) [Link] Yum does support installing into a different root directory.
$ yum --help | grep root
There is another tool "mock" that builds rpms which uses yum to create a clean chroot with only the required build dependencies for each package build.
using urpmi to build a chroot Posted Jan 14, 2007 19:24 UTC (Sun) by Zero_Dogg (subscriber, #31310) [Link] urpmi too:
[root@wulfgar zerodogg]# LC_ALL=C urpmi --help |grep root
Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server Project Posted Jan 11, 2007 16:32 UTC (Thu) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link] An RPM needs to support this for it to work, and my understanding is that many of them don't. Gentoo's ROOT working is mandated by our policy.
Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server Project Posted Jan 11, 2007 21:48 UTC (Thu) by ldo (subscriber, #40946) [Link] >An RPM needs to support this for it to work, and my understanding What does an RPM file need to do to support an alternative installroot? Nothing. The RPM system itself does all the work.
Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server Project Posted Jan 12, 2007 1:03 UTC (Fri) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link] I spent a couple minutes doing research today, and I think I confused RPM's "root" support with its "relocatable" support. Easy enough to do, since I've never used either. =)
Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server Project Posted Jan 13, 2007 0:49 UTC (Sat) by emj (guest, #14307) [Link] What you cant do with yum and apt is to add a --prefix=/opt/gaim/2.4.0 when installing anapplication. That's the only good thing about Gentoo.
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