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Comment on 'Getting Started on SliceHost: Part 1 (Ruby on Rails)' by steve

2007-06-09T19:31:28Z

@jaydee: Those are some strange problems. I’m pretty sure all the slices are AMD64’s, so I don’t think it’s a hardware issue. Things might have changed in gentoo to a level where this tutorial needs some modification, i’ll have to look into it.

Comment on 'Getting Started on SliceHost: Part 1 (Ruby on Rails)' by jaydee

2007-05-27T01:14:53Z

thank you for the guide, i found it quite useful in setting my slice up.

one thing i ran into was that apache2 wouldn’t install because the dependent app-admin/apache-tools was masked due to -amd64 (maybe ~am64 wish i remembered). i added ‘app-admin/apache-tools’ to my package.keywords but i’m still learning portage so i’ll find out soon if that actually works.

additionally subversion seems unhappy with apache2, i just added ‘dev-util/subversion -apache2’ to the pacakge.use and that worked out too.

is your slice running on different hardware that you didn’t run into the apache-tools problem?

Comment on 'Getting Started on SliceHost: Part 1 (Ruby on Rails)' by steve

2007-04-03T17:31:22Z

@chad: Hey chad, thanks for checking out my tutorial. Sorry you ran into some problems. I didn’t mention in the tutorial that all of this should be done after an initial set up of your Gentoo slice with at least and emerge sync to make sure you have all the latest packages available to install. Agreed that running mirrorselect and updating portage (I actually ran an emerge -NDuva world to update the entire system when i first set up my slice).. Let me know if running an emerge—sync helps..

Comment on 'Getting Started on SliceHost: Part 1 (Ruby on Rails)' by Chad Burt

2007-04-03T05:12:47Z

I tried this and had a little trouble. To those who haven’t used gentoo in a while, remember to emerge mirrorselect and add some more mirrors and also emerge portage. I couldn’t get apache2.2.4(just 2.2.3) and pcre just wasn’t available on my “out of the box” slice.

Comment on 'Getting Started on SliceHost: Part 1 (Ruby on Rails)' by Steve

2007-03-20T06:18:03Z

@Joshua: Thanks! Glad you liked it. I think the only packages that were masked for testing were the apr and apache 2.2 packages. Not a huge deal. They’re available, you just have to unmask them.

Comment on 'Getting Started on SliceHost: Part 1 (Ruby on Rails)' by Joshua Nichols

2007-03-20T04:34:04Z

Nice article.

You mentioned some of the packages being out from Gentoo… which specific packages were these? I can see about getting bumping for the offending packages.

Also, one can always file requests for version bumps at bugs.gentoo.org.

Comment on 'Getting Started on SliceHost: Part 1 (Ruby on Rails)' by Steve

2007-03-16T18:17:38Z

Not a problem at all, folks. I’m really glad you found this helpful! x=) Thanks for stoppin’ by.

Comment on 'Getting Started on SliceHost: Part 1 (Ruby on Rails)' by Ronnie

2007-03-16T03:04:46Z

Thank you for writing up the article! The content is so useful and the layout make it a joy to read.

Comment on 'Getting Started on SliceHost: Part 1 (Ruby on Rails)' by Sintaxi

2007-03-14T19:02:47Z

Great work! This could be the best tutorial I have seen on a simple Apache/Mongrel setup. Cant wait to walk through it.

Comment on 'Getting Started on SliceHost: Part 1 (Ruby on Rails)' by slicematt

2007-03-13T02:11:37Z

Thanks Steve – excellent post. Let us know if you need anything and enjoy your Slice.