1hr+ for a general update* (following the guide. Pre-kernel)
On a more serious note, gentoo is fun… On competent hardware. This is a 4 core Celeron N2940 with 4gb of RAM.
*emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --changed-use @world is too long to type…
Weather update. 2hr20min. Terminal output hasnt updated since I posted. Close to giving up for the night. (If it STILL hasnt moved in the morning, ill just start again then)
You might have run out of memory. Linking in particular can require lots of RAM, and if you run out, the entire machine will freeze.
Wtf kinda thinkpad is that? No nipple, massive bezels, and rounded corners. Are you sure this isn’t some weird Temu counterfeit?
lol. i used Gentoo for 5 years or so. it’s the only distribution I don’t recommend.
it assumes you have hours of CPU time to waste, and hours of your time to
dispatch-configafterwords.do Debian or arch.
Time to figure out
distccso you can offload the compilation to a faster machine.Or set up your own binhost
I think that’s more for when you have multiple machines (that would use the same USE flags) and you only want to have to compile once. OP’s use-case re: binary packages would be more about getting them from somebody else (i.e. a public binhost that already exists) so he doesn’t have to compile at all.
I was suggesting using your own binhost as an alternative to distcc.
If someone’s considering distcc, presumably they’ve already decided not to use the public Gentoo binaries, and want to do the compilation themselvesI think that’s more for when you have multiple machines (that would use the same USE flags) and you only want to have to compile once.
One issue with distcc is some of the build operations can’t be delegated. If you want to minimise resource usage as much as possible (e.g. on old hardware) and want to compile yourself, then running your own binhost makes sense.
Gentoo is fantastic for learning. It forced me to get intimate with internals I had no exposure to before. And I learned a lot of little tricks from it that accelerated my career. Or at least made it easier.
I’d try to find something a bit more beefy if you plan on compiling almost everything. And once you get it where you like it, take a backup or system image you can restore to. Because when it breaks, it’ll be a lot less painful to start over.
I just run updates overnight and its never an issue. I’m also running Gentoo on my 5800X3D with 64GB RAM so compilation is generally fast.
Roughly 8 hours ago, that means you might just now be struggling with a nw manager to get a LAN IP assigned, or worse, a wifi network logged in.
Do you have a gui yet?
Someone forgot to setup distcc and ccache?
It really seems you hit the fun
So you picked the brunette?
Ohh it’s that thinkpad netbook. I hated that thing when I got it as my first thinkpad, it’s absurdly slow.
Shoulda stuck with Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon edition.
bash.org is gone and I can’t find a reliable way to search its replacements, but there was a quote on there that said something like “I love Gentoo. You can sit back and it’ll look like you’re a badass hacker but in reality you’re just installing xchess or something.”
