[gentoo-soc] Post-GSoC project document

[gentoo-soc] Post-GSoC project document

[Mounir Lamouri]

Hi,

My Google Summer of Code project was about writing a portage backend for
PackageKit. Before beginning the work we knew it will not be easy.
So I tried to write the backend as much complete as possible and I did a few
changes to portage to help that. But this work helped me to see all the features
we were not able to implement because of some limitations in the API involving.

As this part of the work can't be seen in the code, I've wrote a document about
what where the difficulties and what we will have to work on for the next steps:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~volkmar/post-gsoc-packagekit-portage.html

Hope it will be interesting.

Thanks,
Mounir

[gentoo-soc] [SoC 2009] End of SoC 2009: Gentoo/NetBSD project final report

[Patrice Clement]

Hello everyone,

Today is the end of Google Summer of Code. As soon as I can (= when it'll be possible
to upload this stuff somewhere), I'll release 3 important things to the
Gentoo/BSD community:

- Gentoo/NetBSD ebuilds: as I said, these ebuilds need to be polished, reworked
  and
  tested. I didn't get a lot of feedbacks on them so please, be soft with me.
:P
- gentoo-netbsd-5.0-stage3.tar.bz2: the famous tarball in question. I'll write
  a little wiki to explain installation steps but it should be very easy:
perform
a minimal NetBSD install, download the tarball, extract, and enjoy !
- QEMU VM image: for people who don't want to mess with the install, an image
  will be available. I really need to wait for Google to give us a place to
upload our stuff because of the size of the VM (3 GB). Please, be patient. I'm
sorry but currently, I don't have enough place on my VPS. (perhaps Gentoo guys
can provide me some .. ? :D)

I've made some screenshots of this VM during boot process via OpenRC, login,
emerging of an ebuild (nano), .. Take a look at this url to see them:
http://omani.ac/4ap

This project won't die after GSoC; I'd like to continue working on this in
order to make something as mature as Gentoo/FreeBSD project. Yeah, there is a
big amount of work. :)

As usual, don't hesitate to comment my work, I'll be glad to hear you. :)

I'd like to thank Luca Barbato for his support during the half my GSoC; I
probably wouldn't have finished this project without him. I also like to thank
gentoo-bsd mailing list guys for their precious answers. Even if their has been
hard times, it has been a pleasure to work for the Gentoo Foundation. Thank you
all of you !

Cheers,

Patrice

Re: [gentoo-soc] [SoC 2009] End of SoC 2009: Gentoo/NetBSD project final report

[Mounir Lamouri]

Patrice Clement wrote:
> - Gentoo/NetBSD ebuilds: as I said, these ebuilds need to be polished, reworked
>   and
>   tested. I didn't get a lot of feedbacks on them so please, be soft with me.
> :P
> - gentoo-netbsd-5.0-stage3.tar.bz2: the famous tarball in question. I'll write
>   a little wiki to explain installation steps but it should be very easy:
> perform
> a minimal NetBSD install, download the tarball, extract, and enjoy !
> - QEMU VM image: for people who don't want to mess with the install, an image
>   will be available. I really need to wait for Google to give us a place to
> upload our stuff because of the size of the VM (3 GB). Please, be patient. I'm
> sorry but currently, I don't have enough place on my VPS. (perhaps Gentoo guys
> can provide me some .. ? :D)
>   
Hi Patrice,

You should send an email to g-dev and see with infra and other
developers how to make this work public like adding the ebuilds to the
tree and the tarball to our mirrors.
I'm sure you are going to sign as a developer to do that yourself ;)

Congratulation for your work.

Mounir