On Tue, 04 May 2004 23:11:30 +0100, adam mcmaster wrote:

> On Tue, 04 May 2004 09:04:03 +0200, PiotrAF wrote:
>
>> I'm just a newbie, but IMHO you should either prepare the system on
>> another system ...
>
> That's what I'd suggest - find yourself a machine with a newer system on
> it and compile Gentoo on there. You can either transfer the whole
> filesystem to the server after you're done, or specify buildpkg in
> make.conf before you start and install from the binary packages.

Unless, since Gentoo 1.4 (~summer, last year), this was fixed, I wouldn't
suggest that - it was impossible to do that i.e. of course 'emerge -b' was
possible and 'emerge -k' as well, but only few packages where in fact
emerged making the system totally unusuable due to the missing dependecies