[gentoo-dev] LHS

[gentoo-dev] LHS

[Derek J. Belrose]

How well does Gentoo hold up against the LHS?  If it doesn't, is that a
plan for the future?

Derek Belrose

Re: [gentoo-dev] LHS

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:04:07PM -0400, Derek J. Belrose wrote:
> How well does Gentoo hold up against the LHS?  If it doesn't, is that a
> plan for the future?

We plan to be FHS-compliant, if that is what you're referring to. There
has been some tests done in this area, but we've yet to set up automated
tests for it.

Once I get settled in, I'll see if I can't set up a tinderbox where we
can run regular tests, such as FHS compliance and ebuild-testing.

Regards,

Karl T

[gentoo-dev] Porting gentoo to the Alpha

[derosa]

I have recently set up an alpha machine running rh 7.1. I would like to port
gentoo to the alpha chipset.
My questions:
Are there any parts of the portage tree that are binary ?
Would it make more sense to start from rc6 build or rc5 build ?

Joe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting gentoo to the Alpha

[Daniel Robbins]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:17:17PM -0400, derosa wrote:

> I have recently set up an alpha machine running rh 7.1. I would like to port
> gentoo to the alpha chipset.  My questions: Are there any parts of the
> portage tree that are binary ?  Would it make more sense to start from rc6
> build or rc5 build ?

Um; the e3 editor won't work for you.  That's a minor issue.  Other than that,
you should be OK.  Start with an rc6 build image in about a week.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting gentoo to the Alpha

[derosa]

E3 that's the editor written in assembler right ?
I will just make vim part of the base system tarball for the alpha port,
other items will of course have to change also, no more grub or lilo, and I
will have to add milo for booting.
I will continue to play with the latest snapshots.

I also had an idea, for people stuck behind a nasty firewall, or no internet
connection, that want to build everything.

Have a special build cd, that has a 'snapshot' of the distfiles needed for a
build, and emerge system. And the snapshot from cvs equivolent to whats on
the disk. I have been using this method, on a couple of boxes at work, and
it seems to work well for me. I use the build cd as a base, and just add the
build tarball, and cvs tarball along with the distfiles.

Joe

> > I have recently set up an alpha machine running rh 7.1. I would like to
port
> > gentoo to the alpha chipset.  My questions: Are there any parts of the
> > portage tree that are binary ?  Would it make more sense to start from
rc6
> > build or rc5 build ?
>
> Um; the e3 editor won't work for you.  That's a minor issue.  Other than
that,
> you should be OK.  Start with an rc6 build image in about a week.
>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting gentoo to the Alpha

[Ben Lutgens]

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On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:17:17PM -0400, derosa wrote:
>I have recently set up an alpha machine running rh 7.1. I would like to port
>gentoo to the alpha chipset.
>My questions:
>Are there any parts of the portage tree that are binary ?
>Would it make more sense to start from rc6 build or rc5 build ?
>

Heh, this is open source in action. Someone installs something they like,
it doesn't work on a platform they want to use it on so they decide to do
a port! I love it! Thanks to you and Atma we may end up with alpha and
x86 ports.

Thank you for the contributions.

drobbins, is there anything we'd need to do to the packages in the
portage tree to make them "portable" among archs? I'd think that once
glibc and gcc are setup everything would just sorta fall into place from
CFLAGS="" etc.

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Ben Lutgens
Gentoo Linux Developer and Anti-Okra Advocate

http://www.gentoo.org

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting gentoo to the Alpha

[Ben Lutgens]

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On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:18:51PM -0400, derosa wrote:
>E3 that's the editor written in assembler right ?
>I will just make vim part of the base system tarball for the alpha port,
>other items will of course have to change also, no more grub or lilo, and I
>will have to add milo for booting.
>I will continue to play with the latest snapshots.
>
>I also had an idea, for people stuck behind a nasty firewall, or no internet
>connection, that want to build everything.
>
>Have a special build cd, that has a 'snapshot' of the distfiles needed for a
>build, and emerge system. And the snapshot from cvs equivolent to whats on
>the disk. I have been using this method, on a couple of boxes at work, and
>it seems to work well for me. I use the build cd as a base, and just add the
>build tarball, and cvs tarball along with the distfiles.

I for one second this, I'd think the only source that needed to be on the
cd would be the stuff bootstrap.sh needed, the kernel source, pcmcia
source and a "base system" Granted it would increase the size of the
build.iso but it would indeed be worth it.

Thoughts?



>
>Joe
>
>> > I have recently set up an alpha machine running rh 7.1. I would like to
>port
>> > gentoo to the alpha chipset.  My questions: Are there any parts of the
>> > portage tree that are binary ?  Would it make more sense to start from
>rc6
>> > build or rc5 build ?
>>
>> Um; the e3 editor won't work for you.  That's a minor issue.  Other than
>that,
>> you should be OK.  Start with an rc6 build image in about a week.
>>
>
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting gentoo to the Alpha

[Daniel Robbins]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:11:47AM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote:

> I for one second this, I'd think the only source that needed to be on the
> cd would be the stuff bootstrap.sh needed, the kernel source, pcmcia
> source and a "base system" Granted it would increase the size of the
> build.iso but it would indeed be worth it.
> 
> Thoughts?

We'll have build + source CD releases.  The only problem with them is that
they're much tougher for me to upload :)

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting gentoo to the Alpha

[derosa]

One thing I was thinking, was a USE flag for any non-intel architechture, so
if your trying to build lilo or grub from an alpha it won't work, and if you
try to build milo from an i86 that won't work either.

Just an idea.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:17:17PM -0400, derosa wrote:
>I have recently set up an alpha machine running rh 7.1. I would like to
port
>gentoo to the alpha chipset.
>My questions:
>Are there any parts of the portage tree that are binary ?
>Would it make more sense to start from rc6 build or rc5 build ?
>

Heh, this is open source in action. Someone installs something they like,
it doesn't work on a platform they want to use it on so they decide to do
a port! I love it! Thanks to you and Atma we may end up with alpha and
x86 ports.

Thank you for the contributions.

drobbins, is there anything we'd need to do to the packages in the
portage tree to make them "portable" among archs? I'd think that once
glibc and gcc are setup everything would just sorta fall into place from
CFLAGS="" etc.