Gentoo Witchcraft

tarballedtux · 02-25-2004, 05:47 PM

I'm looking to start almost all fresh with gentoo. I'd rather not start from the very beginning but rather uninstall all unnecessary software. So I'm left with a very mininal system from which I can proceed tp emerge anything i need. The tricky part is I'd like to do it over an SSH session. If an install from the very beginning is suggested I guess I will have to do that but I'd rather not as reinstalling all the stage one components would be redundant.

--tarballedtux

jtshaw · 02-25-2004, 06:34 PM

Unless I am missing something, as long as you don't kill sshd with anything you do, or remove any of the base packages you should be fine. Don't remove anything glibc, or gcc, just merge the version you want in and let portage remove the old versions.

Crashed_Again · 02-26-2004, 03:17 AM

Yes jtshaw is right. If it has to be done via ssh then I would suggest starting all the emerges with 'nohup' like:

# nohup emerge fluxbox

That way if for some reason your ssh connection gets killed it will continue to emerge fluxbox.

tarballedtux · 02-26-2004, 03:29 PM

Hmm. I was asking this cause I thought my portage tree was fscked. It turns out that I was using -e (along with -Up to see what needed to be upgraded) and that made emerge think I wanted something else. I guess it turns out my box is ok.

--tarballedtux