[gentoo-dev] new ports and binary CDs

[gentoo-dev] new ports and binary CDs

[fusion]

Hi,

I've been using Gentoo for about 4 days now, and I think it's
definitely the best one I've used yet.  I loved the OpenBSD ports
heirarchy, and I am a bit of a python programmer myself.  I'm
looking forward to contributing in any way possible, no matter how
slight.

Anyway, I had a few questions:

1. Is there a way to generate a binary CD image?  I'd like to
install Gentoo on my friends' machine's but I don't think they'll
enjoy the wait.  I can compile at the proper optimizations in the
background on my beefeater 1GHz for a few days much easier than they
can on their own, or wait for the bootstrap process.

2. Are there guidelines for making additions to the ports?  I've
already made ebuilds for p5-Perl, coldsync, Pybliographer, and
recode-3.5 (for pybliographer).  It's so easy to do these it might
be redundant or silly, but I would think you'd like to have as many
ports as possible (even though these are not difficult builds).

Thanks for the superb distribution!

-- 
Daniel

Re: [gentoo-dev] new ports and binary CDs

[Dan Armak]

On Wednesday 20 February 2002 10:30, fusion@nmt.edu wrote:
> 1. Is there a way to generate a binary CD image?  I'd like to
> install Gentoo on my friends' machine's but I don't think they'll
> enjoy the wait.  I can compile at the proper optimizations in the
> background on my beefeater 1GHz for a few days much easier than they
> can on their own, or wait for the bootstrap process.
I'm not sure about generating binary images, but what you can do is extract 
the .tbz2 build archive to a dir on your harddisk (from your current working 
system), chroot, and bootstrap and compile in the background. You can follow 
the install guide from the chroot onwards. Then, just copy the dir onto your 
friend's root dir and set the partition settings. 


-- 
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team (KDE)
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] new ports and binary CDs

[Maciek BOROWKA]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Dan Armak wrote:

> [snip]
> the install guide from the chroot onwards. Then, just copy the dir onto 
> your friend's root dir and set the partition settings. 

Just a question : is it safe to copy /dev directory ?  

/Maciek

Re: [gentoo-dev] new ports and binary CDs

[Dan Armak]

On Wednesday 20 February 2002 11:38, Maciek BOROWKA wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Dan Armak wrote:
> > [snip]
> > the install guide from the chroot onwards. Then, just copy the dir onto
> > your friend's root dir and set the partition settings.
>
> Just a question : is it safe to copy /dev directory 
Yes, because we're using devfs which creates the rught device files. The /dev 
that's really on disk (which you see for a moment before devfs is mounted 
while booting) is generic, and contains all devices for all needs. So copy 
that (make sure you unmount whatever's in the chroot - devfs, proc, boot).


-- 
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team (KDE)
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] new ports and binary CDs

[Gert Menke]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:38:09AM +0100, Maciek BOROWKA wrote:
> Just a question : is it safe to copy /dev directory ?  

Not if it's mounted... ;-) (The same for /proc)
Otherwise it should be empty (devfs).
When I copy a whole system to another partition I use:
  cd (old root)
  cp -avx . (new root)

Greetings
Gert

Re: [gentoo-dev] new ports and binary CDs

[Maciek BOROWKA]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Gert Menke wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:38:09AM +0100, Maciek BOROWKA wrote:
> 
> Not if it's mounted... ;-) (The same for /proc)

:+)

> Otherwise it should be empty (devfs).

I use devfs. I have of course all the structure of devices when it is 
mounted. I believe however,  there are some nodes that must exist
in /dev in order to let your system boot. I remember having some problems 
with console devices and the kernel that didn't want to boot because
I didn't have the corresponding node in /dev. I added the node 
and it worked. 
So, please correct me if I'm wrong : there are some nodes in dev, used
by the kernel/init during boot process but as soon as devfsd is launched,
they get overwritten by devfs structure?

Sorry for off-topic...

/Maciek