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Transforming Gentoo to Sabayon

2012-02-15
Tags: gentoo, distro

The most noticable difference between Gentoo Linux and Sabayon is the package-manager entropy. So transforming Sabayon -> Gentoo is just about using (the ready to use delivered) portage to compile gentoo-like your own flavoured packages. The transforming vice versa Gentoo -> Sabayon is a little bit more trickier.

Steps to transform Gentoo to Sabayon

  • Install the entropy-terminal-frontend: app-admin/equo
rechner ~#> emerge app-admin/equo -atv
  • add a sabayon-repository:
rechner ~#> echo "repository = sabayon-weekly|Sabayon Linux Official Repository|http://pkg.sabayon.org|http://pkg.sabayon.org,sabayon.org" \
> /etc/entropy/repositories.conf.d/sabayon-weekly 
  • fill System database:
    when following message apears, the system-database
rechner ~#> equo upgrade 
>>  !!! System database not found or corrupted, running in safe mode using temporary, empty repository
>>  @@ Calculating System Updates...
>>  @@ Calculating dependencies ...

to fix that: create a file /etc/entropy/sets/install_base and fill it with all installed files.

rechner ~#> mkdir /etc/entropy/sets
rechner ~#> touch /etc/entropy/sets/install_base