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On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 12:23 +0100, Marcus Priesch wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 09:59 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> > Interest yes, manpower no as far as I can tell. |
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> > |
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> > I'd really like to see it go somewhere ... |
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> is there a point to where someone can find information on work that |
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> needs to be done ? - what are the main points ? |
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Well - |
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first you'd need to fix portage for Cygwin usage. Small stuff: |
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- user/group check is not reliable in windows |
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* either remove or add "root" and "portage" users |
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- there's some userland check that fails, need to append WINNT5.0 if I |
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recall correctly |
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- there were some path issues, I think those are fixed - hardcoded paths |
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need to be fixed |
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So portage mostly runs. |
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emerge sync doesn't work as we have a few ebuilds with ":" in the name |
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--> cygwin interprets that as a drive letter |
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--> write a sane rsync_exclude (or better, start a cygwin-only ebuild |
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repo) |
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Now you try bootstrapping. |
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--> the linker used to be really dumb and wasn't capable of repeated |
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compiles. |
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* if that still exists the linker needs to be fixed - this will be |
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tricky |
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--> glibc doesn't exist on Cygwin, the cygwin libc is evil |
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* either write an ebuild for cygwin-libc providing virtual/libc or port |
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glibc |
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* I never managed to build cygwin-libc from scratch, it's evil :-) |
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* porting glibc will be _a lot_ of work, cygwin libc is incomplete |
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--> many packages need lots of patching |
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* extract patches from cygwin repositories, apply to ebuilds and test |
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* never managed to get gcc to build, that'll be lots of testing until |
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it works reliably |
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--> now you should have a smallish system that can "emerge -e system" |
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--> create an install image like the cygwin installer that plops in a |
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stage3 equivalent |
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--> start porting as many ebuilds as you can |
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People with some spare time and lots of motivation can try "Services for |
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Unix" instead of Cygwin |
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as far as I can tell it's not as buggy, but has been crippled so that |
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it's not easy to use. |
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Cygwin and SFU can co-exist and should share 99% of code, so trying both |
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is acceptable |
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I don't have the time for actual coding/testing now, but I'm willing to |
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provide ressources (rsync repo, cvs / svn repo, coordination) |
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If there are any questions left feel free to ask! |
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wkr, |
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Patrick |
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> greets, |
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> mexx (a somesparetimeavailablenowgentooenthusiast). |
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