On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:33 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > Some OK ideas have been floated here, but what if our friend doesn't > have another working gentoo machine? he needs that for quickpkg.
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:28 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > My best idea has been to try and distcc with my desktop I assumed the presence of a separate desktop machine from this comment. > Also he isn't going > to be able to install it with portage because portage isn't working > because python isn't working. Hopefull untarring it into the filesystem > will work, tar is how I'd start. > but any post install scripts are not going to be executed. > Therefore something like gcc-config will need to be executed, and OP > will also need to check the ebuild for other steps that may be missing > from a simple untar. untar gcc, then emerge gcc, and you'll fix the post-install and other ebuild stuff. I hope :) -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the double lock will keep; May no brick through the window break, And, no one rob me till I awake. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
