[gentoo-user] Packages in other architectures (arm)

[gentoo-user] Packages in other architectures (arm)

[Daniel Quinn]

I've just come into possession of a few of these fabulous little machines:

http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp

They have 512mb ram, 1ghz Arm CPU and a sketchy jffs2 "hard drive" inside, 
along with an SDHC slot, one USB plug and one gigabit ethernet port.  
Naturally, I'm turning them into a little cluster of web/mail/dns/torrent 
servers :-)

Unfortunatly though, I've discovered that one of my favourite command-line 
based torrent clients, "rtorrent" doesn't have "arm" in its KEYWORDS variable.  
Can someone tell me why this is?  If it's just due to it not having been 
tested, I'd be happy to do that, but I'd need to know the "right" way to do 
that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages in other architectures (arm)

[Stroller]

On 5 Aug 2009, at 18:49, Daniel Quinn wrote:
> ...
> Unfortunatly though, I've discovered that one of my favourite  
> command-line
> based torrent clients, "rtorrent" doesn't have "arm" in its KEYWORDS  
> variable.
> Can someone tell me why this is?  If it's just due to it not having  
> been
> tested, I'd be happy to do that, but I'd need to know the "right"  
> way to do
> that.

Surely no-one here can. Possibly the Gentoo developer for the package  
could tell you, it's equally possible that no-one's ever tried it.

Simply copy the package's ebuild to your local tree, edit it to add  
the ARM keyword and try it. If it works, open a bug at Gentoo asking  
for the package to be marked as table on your architecture.

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay#Creating_a_local_overlay

It looks like rtorrent does compile on ARM:
http://www.osix.net/modules/article/?id=827

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages in other architectures (arm)

[Daniel Quinn]

On August 5, 2009 02:09:21 pm Stroller wrote:
> Simply copy the package's ebuild to your local tree, edit it to add
> the ARM keyword and try it. If it works, open a bug at Gentoo asking
> for the package to be marked as table on your architecture.
>
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay#Creating_a_local_overlay

Thanks!  I'll try that tonight and if it works out, I'll do just as you 
suggest.

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages in other architectures (arm)

[AllenJB]

Stroller wrote:
> 
> On 5 Aug 2009, at 18:49, Daniel Quinn wrote:
>> ...
>> Unfortunatly though, I've discovered that one of my favourite 
>> command-line
>> based torrent clients, "rtorrent" doesn't have "arm" in its KEYWORDS 
>> variable.
>> Can someone tell me why this is?  If it's just due to it not having been
>> tested, I'd be happy to do that, but I'd need to know the "right" way 
>> to do
>> that.
> 
> Surely no-one here can. Possibly the Gentoo developer for the package 
> could tell you, it's equally possible that no-one's ever tried it.
> 
> Simply copy the package's ebuild to your local tree, edit it to add the 
> ARM keyword and try it. If it works, open a bug at Gentoo asking for the 
> package to be marked as table on your architecture.
> 
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay#Creating_a_local_overlay
> 
> It looks like rtorrent does compile on ARM:
> http://www.osix.net/modules/article/?id=827
> 
> Stroller.
> 
> 
There's no need to edit an ebuild. You can add the package to 
package.keywords with "**" as the keyword.

AllenJB