Friday 24 Jul 2009 09:36:55 (-0300), Javier Villavicencio wrote :

Hi Javier,

Sorry for the delay in replying.

> OpenRC is developed by an ex gentoo-dev, Roy Marples, you can find him 
> on irc at either #gentoo-bsd or #openrc (rsmarples), he will be a good 
> point to start, since he mainly uses NetBSD *with* OpenRC AFAIK.
> 

Yes, I have talked with him, and he seems open to help me. Good news!

> Unless there is something specifically not supported on NetBSD (the only 
> example that comes to my mind is nvidia drivers) that are included in 
> the fbsd profile, you're good with that profile, making proper changes 
> to environment variables, and use/package masking that need to be NetBSD 
> specific.
> 

If you say so, I'm okay too.

> Perl and Python are *highly* portable with minimal intervention, I 
> honestly don't think you'll need to patch these ebuilds for NetBSD, 
> although I once found a bug in Perl that only showed up on FreeBSD, if 
> you find something similar (a bug) then that's the only case I'd think 
> they'll really need a patch.
> 

Great. I'll surely need to modify some ebuilds: as example, on NetBSD,
e2fsprogs ebuild need to be compiled without thread local storage support
(--disable-tls ./configure argument). That's what I meant. :)

> 
> Just curious on this one, have you managed to compile the NetBSD kernel 
> with a gentoo toolchain?
> 

What do you mean by "with a Gentoo toolchain" ? For example: with a toolchain I
built using my ebuilds ? Because the answer is: yes. :)

> Salu2,
> Javier.
> 

Cheers!