To take scenario 2 of the use case article as examle:

I want to distribute a prefix based product to different customers,
but my home directory (/home/elmar/) is compiled into it.

Would a symlink work to solve this?

mkdir /home/elmar/gentoo
sudo ln -s /home/elmar/gentoo/ /opt/gentoo

Then do bootstrapping in /opt as elmar?

Better solutions?

Al

Hey Al,

Elmar Hinz <oss.elmar@googlemail.com> writes:

> I want to distribute a prefix based product to different customers,
> but my home directory (/home/elmar/) is compiled into it.
> Would a symlink work to solve this?
> mkdir /home/elmar/gentoo
> sudo ln -s /home/elmar/gentoo/ /opt/gentoo
> Then do bootstrapping in /opt as elmar?

Take a look at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.alt/4502/.

The most non-trivial part is the runtime library loading. In prefix, we
have the library pathes hard compiled into the binaries. Moving them
requires a recompilation.

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Research Center for Neutrino Science
Tohoku University
JAPAN

http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda

>
> Take a look at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.alt/4502/.
>

Thank you. This thread is about altering the prefix.

That's what I want to avoid by setting /opt/gentoo as common prefix
for all end users and than symlink to it. Hence the question, if it
would work on such a symlink or break.

The other question in this case is about how to handle the different user ids.

Al

First report to the symlink question:

I moved the whole bootstrapped /home/elmar/gentoo to my USB stick. The
new path is /media/Prefix.

After symlinking to /home/elmar/gentoo at least my test candidate gedit works.

Now I try how far it will directly cooperate with Suse and Fedora live CDs.

Al