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

[derosa <derosa@optonline.net>]

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.
>