Category gentoo-prefix

Postings related to running Gentoo prefix on Linux, MacOSX and other platforms.

Porting revdep-rebuild to gentoo-prefix

The other day I ran `emerge -uD system`, because I felt I might actually loose contact to the cutting edge. I’m now gifted with a whole set on broken applications and libraries due to links that are not existing anymore.…

gentoo-alt-converter

What this script does and where it comes from  Gentoo-prefix has been quite practical for me: I migrated from a Gentoo Linux machine to an Apple Intel Laptop. Since prefix is still very develop-mental and a large number of packages…

gentoo-prefix on SGI-Altixes (IA-64) running SLES 9

The prefixed portage as of May 24th 2008 compiles perfectly fine on IA-64 SLES9 (with ProPack), which it didn’t before. For installation I followed the Gentoo Prefixed Portage Bootstrap Process for Solaris 10 users. During the initial bootstrapping with the…