[gentoo-soc] Gentoaster - Week 2 progress report

[Liam McLoughlin <hexxeh@hexxeh.net>]

Hey,

So if you saw my progress report last week, you’ll know I was having
problems with the bootloader. That’s all now resolved, it turned out
to be a partition alignment problem. Images are now booting up to a
login prompt and run just fine under QEMU and VirtualBox. Took me
quite some time to work this out, so I didn’t manage to get a whole
lot else done this last week, my exams are coming up towards the end
of this month so I have less and less time, however I’m totally free
from June 7th to power on with this every day so I think I should be
fine on time. So in the past week I’ve:

- Fixed the bootloader and partitioning problems
- Started adding GNOME to an image to test this install

I started adding GNOME to images, but the emerge fails withan XML
parser Perl module problem, which I’m currently fixing. Once this is
done, I’ll be tidying up the script and then adding configuration
parsing. After some extended testing I’ll then be able to move onto
the WebUI. I think that errors similar to the GNOME one might appear
in other packages if a user passes a custom list with their build
request, so perhaps some helper scripts might be required if certain
packages are installed, to prevent these things happening. If anyone
has suggestions on that front I’d very much like to hear them.

Thanks,
Liam