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From: Jose Luis Rivero <yoswink@g.o>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-alpha] Alpha status Dec 2005
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:17:30
Message-Id: 43974405.6060403@gentoo.org
1 Note: This doc can be found on Gentoo/Alpha web site[1] and is also
2 available in guidexml version [2].
3
4 Alpha status Dec 2005
5 =====================
6
7 A little report about how the alpha arch team development activities are
8 going.
9
10 Index:
11
12 - Toolchain and Kernel development
13 - Security Bugs
14 - SELinux development
15 - Modular Xorg on Gentoo/Alpha
16 - Experimental java on Gentoo/Alpha
17 - Alpha arch testers project
18 - Future Alpha project page
19
20 Toolchain and Kernel development
21 ----------------------------------
22
23 Thanks mainly to Bryan Østergaard (kloeri) and our base herd, the toolchain
24 and the kernel are in very good health:
25
26 * GCC
27 GCC was stabilized few days ago to version 3.4.4. Our next step will be
28 trying to get gcc-4 working in the testing branch.
29
30 * Kernel
31 New kernel alpha keywords reached Portage tree, so the current situation
32 is:
33
34 - 2.4 series: 2.4.30 (stable) -- 2.4.32 (testing)
35 - 2.6 series: 2.6.14.2 (stable) -- 2.6.15_rc5 (testing)
36
37 udev and nptl support is working fine on the 2.6 kernel series.
38
39 * C libraries
40 glibc-2.3.5 hit the stable branch a few days ago after being more than
41 a month in testing and see no important bugs on it. This version allows
42 us to avoid the critical "Threads defuncts on Alpha" bug (#100259).
43 Everybody without nptl support is encourage to install this version as
44 soon as possible.
45
46 * Binutils
47 kloeri is planning on bumping to stable binutils 2.16.1 in the next
48 few days. This way, the whole toolchain will be completely up to date.
49
50 Security Bugs
51 -------------
52
53 The Alpha arch team is pleased to say that we've managed all security bugs
54 within a very reasonable response time. At the moment, no delay on
55 marking stable versions when security requires it.
56
57 Kudos also, to our security herd and rest of our arch teams for keeping
58 Gentoo
59 security in a high level.
60
61 SELinux development
62 -------------------
63
64 Stephen Bennett (spb) is currently working on SELinux support for
65 Gentoo/Alpha
66 and we hope to see a SELinux profile for alpha in the tree as soon as we
67 feel
68 confident about it.
69
70 A little note here to say thanks to Dforge and Virginia Computer Science
71 Department for maintaining our testing computers and adding the new boxes
72 to support SELinux development.
73
74 Modular Xorg on Gentoo/Alpha
75 ----------------------------
76
77 Thanks to our developer Stefaan De Roeck (stefaan) the modular Xorg porting
78 to alpha is going pretty well. We are still waiting for upstream to fix some
79 errors before putting the alpha keyword on it:
80 - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4928
81
82 Stefaan also has a tinderbox to check modular xorg on alpha:
83 - http://tinderbox.anholt.net/tinderbox3/showbuilds.pl?tree=xorg
84
85 Experimental java on Gentoo/Alpha
86 ---------------------------------
87
88 After some work trying to fix compaq-java (see bug #84306) we are nearly
89 sure it is a waste of time trying to make something unsupported upstream
90 and obsolete (provide jre/jdk-1.3) work.
91
92 After some experiences with SableVM, Thomas Cort (tcort) has been
93 playing with
94 lastest version of this free alternative to make java work on Alpha. SableVM
95 seems to work with basic packages so, our plan is to set up an overlay and
96 start playing with this.
97
98 More info about Thomas' current work:
99 - http://mediumbagel.org/java/
100
101 Alpha Arch testers Project
102 --------------------------
103
104 Fernando J. Pereda (ferdy) is working these days on setting up our Arch
105 Testers project which has given very good results on other arch teams
106 inside Gentoo (mainly amd64).
107
108 For more information, you can read the overview on the amd64 arch
109 testers' project page to see what this project is about:
110 - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/tests/index.xml
111
112 Future change on the Alpha Project Page
113 ---------------------------------------
114
115 We hope to make some changes on our official project page to keep public
116 info
117 well structured and a bit more updated than it is now. Also starting
118 subproject sections with information about arch testers, SELinux and
119 java would be good.
120
121 - (current page) http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/
122
123 ------------------------
124 Gentoo Alpha Herd
125 Dec 2005
126
127 [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/status/status-20051207.txt
128 [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/status/status-20051207.xml
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