Procedure for using Portage in another distribution.

I have been playing around with getting Portage to work in Redhat 7.1, and I haven't ironed
out all the bugs yet, so I'll just outline what I have done so far.  As usual, backup
anything important before you try these instructions...


1.  Download portage source code.
2.  Untar into a work directory somewhere
3.  Download portage snapshot and untar into /usr
4.  cp portagexxx/bin/* to /usr/bin
[Note: havent tracked down why this next step is necessary, but calling ebuild causes an
error without it]
4a. cp portagexxx/bin/ebuild* /usr/sbin
5.  cp portagexxx/cnf/* to /etc
6.  cp portagexxx/pym/* to /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/
7.  cd to portagexxx/src/python-missongos and do python setup.py build
8.  do python setup.py install
9.  cd ../sandbox
10. do make && make install
[NOTE.  the following step is crucial or it will disable about half of a redhat
system]
11.  in etc, create an env.d directory.  If you have a working gentoo system,
grab the 00basic file and copy it to the new directory.  This directory is what
env-update uses to rebuild the ld.co.conf file.  I modified the 00basic file so
that it looked like the following:

PATH=/usr/local/bin
ROOTPATH=/usr/local/bin
LDPATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/kerberos/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/lib/sane:/usr/lib/qt-2.3.0/lib
MANPATH=/usr/share/man
INFODIR=/usr/share/info
CVS_RSH=ssh
PAGER=/usr/bin/less
LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s"

I could have made a seperate files, each with a different LDPATH line and they would  have
been merged, but I was feeling lazy.


Conclusion:

That should do it... the following are the caveats/problems that I havent solved yet...
1.  emerge rsync doesnt work as my place of employment has that port blocked. 
Additionally CVS access appears to be passworded.  So I have to download the portage
snapshots to update portage.

2.  Due to all the RPM's for the base system, portage always wants to emerge baselayout,
etc... so for packages I have been using the --nodeps option and installing packages one
at a time.  The downside is that you have to install all required packages seperately.

3.  I was having the circular reference error, but without emerge rsync, I had to just
emerge --nodeps python-fchksum and the error went away.