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Note: this doc can be found on the web at the following URLs... |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/status/status-20060621.xml (HTML) |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/status/status-20060621.txt |
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Gentoo/Alpha Status Report |
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1. Status reports |
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Preliminaries |
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This is the status of the Gentoo/Alpha porting team. It will be posted |
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regularly, but not with a static frequency. All questions can be posted |
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to gentoo-alpha@g.o. The Gentoo/Alpha porting team, has its own |
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project page (just like almost all other Gentoo projects). You can find |
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it at http://alpha.gentoo.org/. Also you can contact us via IRC at |
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#gentoo-alpha on irc.freenode.net. The latest status report can always |
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be found on the Gentoo Linux Alpha Status Reports[1] subproject page. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/status/index.xml |
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Index |
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This status report will briefly discuss the following tasks, objectives, |
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and/or projects related to the Gentoo/Alpha porting team: |
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* Developers |
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* Toolchain status |
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* New revision of aboot |
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* Keywording and Security |
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* Firefox and Thunderbird fixed |
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* Alpha Arch Testers Project |
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* Donations |
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2. Content |
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Developers |
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Since the last status report, some of our developers have gone and some |
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others |
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have joined the Gentoo/Alpha porting project. |
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Developers who left the Alpha Team: |
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- Bryan Østergaard |
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Our leader left Gentoo some time ago. He was one of the oldest |
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alpha Gentoo developers and one of the main contributors to the |
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port. We wish him the best. |
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- Thomas Cort |
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Thomas was one of our most active developers but, had to stop his |
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contributions due to lack of time. We hope to have him with us |
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again some time in the future. |
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New developers, arch testers and contributors: |
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- Raúl Porcel (Gentoo developer) |
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Raúl joined the Gentoo/Alpha porting team to help with keywording |
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and security bugs. |
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- Brian Evans (Gentoo/Alpha arch tester) |
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Brian joined our arch tester program in . He is helping with |
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keywording and bug fixing. |
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- Tobias Klausmann (Gentoo/Alpha arch tester) |
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Tobias is our last addition to the team. He is also the admin |
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of our main dev box. |
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Toolchain and Kernel development |
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- GCC |
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GCC 4.1.2 is our stable version which seems to not have any problem. |
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Testing with gcc-4.2 is going fine so probably will enter into |
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~alpha some time soon. |
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- Kernel |
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Gentoo/Alpha changed the supported sources and now, we are happy to |
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announce that gentoo-sources are our default kernel sources. |
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Gentoo/Alpha current stable version is 2.6.21. |
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- C libraries |
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glibc-2.5 is the stable version since February. There was a known |
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compiling error related to CFI in sigsuspend files. The error was |
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fixed by bumping binutils version during these last weeks. The |
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testing with glibc-2.6 goes just fine and it will enter in ~alpha |
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sometime soon. |
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- Binutils |
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Gentoo/Alpha is now using an advanced version of binutils due to |
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fails with stable glibc and a bug which makes ld takes too much |
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time with some packages. 2.17.50.0.16 is the stable version after |
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a heavy testing process. |
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New revision of aboot |
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Due to some changes in the way the kernel headers allow to use the |
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types declaration (knowing by "sanitized headers") aboot was not able |
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to compile against kernel headers >=2.6.19. |
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Aboot uses a lot of kernel structure definitions so the only quick fix |
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available was to use the old headers during the building process. Mike |
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Frysinger was kindly enough to provide a revision of the latest aboot |
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version and now we have a shiny: aboot-1.0_pre20040408-r1 marked as |
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~alpha. |
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Keywording and Security |
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The keywording process has suffer a major improvement thanks mainly |
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to the work of armin76 and our arch testers. xorg-7.2, gnome-2.16 |
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and kde-3.5 are stables on alpha as well as latest versions for |
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all desktop packages. |
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We also keep the status of security supporting arch attending all |
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the security bugs managed by the Gentoo Security team with a very |
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good response time. |
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Firefox and Thunderbird fixed |
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In the previous status report, firefox and thunderbird 1.5 series were |
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broken |
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on alpha. Currently, the situation has changed and now, the latest versions |
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of these mozilla products are keyworded for alpha. |
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Alpha Arch Testers Project |
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The Alpha Arch Testers Project was recently created by Fernando J. |
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Pereda (ferdy). The project is meant to help the Alpha Arch Team provide |
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a stable, secure and up to date Gentoo Linux port by allowing users to |
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participate in the testing and stabilization process. If you want to |
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learn more about this excellent opportunity to give back to Gentoo, |
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please check out the Alpha Arch Testers Project Page[2]. |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/AT/index.xml |
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Donations |
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Hardware donations are always welcome. We will gladly accept spare alpha |
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hardware. We are specially looking for desktops systems which aren't too |
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big to keep them in a house. That's because we lack the resources to |
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test some software which needs to have physical contact with the box |
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(cd-writers, sound, bootloaders, kernels, etc.). |
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More powerful systems could be used to |
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assist in testing packages, to provide developers with access to alpha |
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hardware to port applications, or to assist in building releases. Alpha |
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computers aren't the only hardware that we could benifit from; a SCSI or |
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IDE DVD burner would allow us to test dvdrtools, PCI 802.11 NICs would |
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allow us to do more extensive testing and unmask the wifi USE flag |
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(currently only 1 dev has an alpha with wireless), PDAs would allow us |
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to test PDA applications and unmask the pda USE flag. If you would like |
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to make a donation, please drop by #gentoo-alpha on irc.freenode.net or |
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#gentoo-alpha on irc.freenode.net or send an e-mail to alpha@g.o. |
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