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

From: Ben Lutgens <blutgens@dolly-llama.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting gentoo to the Alpha
Date: Thu Aug 30 06:12:11 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010830071147.B11653@ares.dolly-llama.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003901c130d8$9559bd00$14002a0a@wizard>; from derosa@optonline.net on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:18:51PM -0400

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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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