From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.8 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN,DMARC_MISSING,FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1,HELO_NO_DOMAIN, INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from [216.17.46.90] (helo=gentoo) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15cQfs-0008Sr-00 for gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 06:11:56 -0600 Received: from blutgens by gentoo with local (Exim 3.32 #1) id 15cQfj-00032C-00 for gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 07:11:47 -0500 From: Ben Lutgens To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting gentoo to the Alpha Message-ID: <20010830071147.B11653@ares.dolly-llama.org> References: <001201c1300f$32df1d10$14002a0a@wizard> <20010828201517.D10510@cvs.gentoo.org> <003901c130d8$9559bd00$14002a0a@wizard> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003901c130d8$9559bd00$14002a0a@wizard>; from derosa@optonline.net on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:18:51PM -0400 X-Mailer: all GUI clients SUCK!! Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Aug 30 06:12:11 2001 X-Original-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 07:11:47 -0500 X-Archives-Salt: 8e243191-8f79-4ad1-bdde-0f21d7df9ac7 X-Archives-Hash: 2cb1a330ef72d35756e8209ac83b5e53 --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 intern= et >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 t= he >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. >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >gentoo-dev mailing list >gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org >http://cvs.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev > --=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- Ben Lutgens Gentoo Linux Developer and Anti-Okra Advocate http://www.gentoo.org --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7ji2DLxkxGgLdGQgRAvOzAJ9bjxxowfkGXZgqzmI/I6WyFzGekQCgzmjW MjvHbit/g12pKKrmh0nuqZ0= =FUA0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F--