When portage needs to download source code archives, it will store. Gentoo portage makes it fairly easy to update all the installed packages on your system. What is your list of things you do after a fresh installation of gentoo. They can be manually added to this set with emerge noreplace.
Sync custom package repository and the gentoo ebuild repository using eix. I would like at least to get a list of those packages. I updated the nf file and used the following command. In this case, gentoo downloads the binary files and installs those on the file system. The place to find relevant information on gentoo linux. In addition, for those problems which are more complicated, this article.
How can i perform such update using command line tool. The arm64 project is pleased to announce that all arm64 profiles are now stable. Browse other questions tagged package management gentoo. A graphical boot manager for efi and uefibased computers, such as all intelbased macs and recent most 2011 and later pcs. Note them down, then download them elsewhere and copy them to your local repository, in the place i told you above. This is a reference card of useful commands for administrating gentoo systems. It is a wellknown fact that gentoo never got in touch with the classic way of upgrading software. On gentoo, how do i rebuild all packages depended on some. Now, running emerge depclean will remove that package iff its not required by any other package. As jimmij pointed out, you can select a particular version by prefixing the package atom with an equals sign. Here in gentoo land, the concept of upgrading is quite different compared to the rest of the linux world.
It is primarily used for installing packages, and emerge can automatically handle any dependencies that the desired package has. Portage supports a number of protocols for downloading binary. To find out the sources for those packages and where to download. It causes emerge not to consider binary packages for a re install if those binary packages have been built before the given time stamp. On gentoo, how do i rebuild all packages depended on some other package.
Finally, the easiest and best method for sabayon or gentoo is using portage emerge. I am currently attempting to re emerge the package now. Gentoo is a trademark of the gentoo foundation, inc. On of the fundamental concepts of gentoo is that the packages are not. Portage is the official package manager and distribution system for gentoo. Is there a way to instruct emerge not to remove them. How to recompile everything efficiently on a gentoo linux. If you re installing gentoo consider using the arch linux iso. Providing the gentoo developer community with access to bare metal hardware has accelerated progress in achieving the stabilization of the arm64 profiles. The emerge and revdeprebuild tools are powerful and make the process of recompiling everything much less painful than it sounds. If i understood the instruction above, emerge noreplace syskernel gentoo sources3. The emerge webrsync program will download the entire ebuild repository as a tarball. You need to look at each package and resolve the problem possibly stray entries in one of the package files or world.
I we assume that there exists an ebuild for x11libsbamf0. You may use the efile command from the pfl package emerge av appportagepfl to search by package contents. This allows installing packages with oneshot, andor other emerge. When doing the emerge, the package devlangspidermonkey60. Applying security patches and updating system apps is an important part of maintaining the gentoo. P depclean only removes packages that are not in world and are not a dependency of another package. Portage includes many commands for repository and package management, the primary of which is the emerge command the most common questions about portage and the emerge command are handled in the portage faq. Download a gentoo live dvd 64bit for 64bit systems or 32bit for 32bit systems. I am helping a friend with gentoo linux installed on a vps server. After this it will unpack, compile and install the package. But installing gentoo, as an activity, it really isnt difficult. So if i want to lock in the current build, and not rebuild the next time and.
A gtk2based frontend for portage emerge, gentoo s package management system. Browse other questions tagged package management compiling gentoo emerge or ask your own question. If you just want a computer that just works the gentoo learning curve really is that steep. I know about alien and deb2targz, but is there anything scripts. I installed my gentoo some time ago and as i have learned of new things i have added new use flags to my nf. Often binary packages are the only way of recovering a broken system i. I will post up the relevant logs if needed, i am currently attempting to re emerge the package now. I have already set up alsa and needs to re emerge kde with arts flag in. An ebuild must be, at a minimum, a valid portage package directory name. To that end, if you have managed to get additional packages not included in the original preinstalled set working reliably on your gentoo onrpi364bit system, please feel free to submit prs for the relevant profile elements of the rpi3 overlay for example, package. Any change in portage package will also trigger the appropriate re emerge to the affected package. And if you get some message concerning some variables which are too big or something like that, enter mount t tmpfs none vartmpportage just before emerge and umount vartmpportage afterwards.
This is useful to avoid re installing all packages, if the binary package server had to be rebuild from scratch but rebuiltbinaries is used otherwise. With many distros, the most difficult part is downloading and burning the cd. As a distro that actually has steps that you have to follow to install, gentoo is many times more difficult. I emerged kde in gentoo without the arts useflag, thus my kde sound system does not work. I need to update all install packages on gentoo linux. The question is how do i re emerge affected packages based on the new use flags i have. If the version is the same you might be able to re use the source packages you already have. During the installation of a package, portage will download the necessary source code from the internet if necessary and store it by default in varcachedistfiles. I have a question about how to re emerge a package in gentoo with new useflag settings.
Live environments and stage archives can be downloaded using the links below. To tell portage to only download the sources without installing them, add the fetchonly option to the emerge command. If youre installing gentoo consider using the gentoo. Using the following forms you can compose advanced search queries instead of writing them manually. The emergewebrsync program will download the entire ebuild. Thus, it is recommended to use a tool such as revdeprebuild1 in order to detect. Someone suggested emerge e world but that sounds truly dangerous. I was about to download gentoo the other day but then i found funtoo.
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