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Bill Anderson wrote: |
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> Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> > Thomas Flavel wrote: |
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> >> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:29:01PM -0600, Bryce Porter wrote: |
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> >>> Tom: |
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> >>> "I'm just thinking along the lines of a minimum binary system where |
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> >>> absolutley needed, and compiling specifically everywhere else? I realise this would |
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> >>> be slow to install on slower systems, but, since we're all power users... ;) |
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> >>> Seriously though, I do think this would be a nice feature, unless there's |
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> >>> some practicality reason I'm missing." |
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> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- |
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> >>> I think this is a great idea. I heard of a GNU/Linux distrobution that |
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> >>> when installed compiled all selected packages from source, making it the |
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> >>> most optimized you could get for your specific machine. I think it was |
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> >>> called Rock Linux or something. |
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> >> Not heard of it, but a quick search on google reveals the predicatable url: |
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> >> http://www.rocklinux.org, #rocklinux on irc.openprojects.net. |
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> >> Looks to be faily mature (at least they're past 1.0 ;), supports ppc and alpha |
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> >> as well as x86. |
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> > Please send me you ppc, alpha, i64, mips, sparc machines and I will do the ports. :-) |
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> How about SSH access to an Alpha? Good enough? ;^)= |
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Is that an offer? Yes please. |
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> >> From what I can see it has a binary cd version, with the option |
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> >> to compile from source (the same thing I was talking about, if I understand them |
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> >> correctly). It describes it's package management as closer to FreeBSD than debian. |
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> >> It looks to be quite similar to gentoo to me, although not quite as advanced. |
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> > I took a look at the site and think that we need something similar to cfengine |
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> > sometimes. |
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> > I thougth about a minimum build system too, while I had to go back to i486 from i686. |
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> > There is another project linux-from-scratch (www.lfs.org i think) that creates a |
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> > statically linked set |
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> > of packages required for build first and then builds the rest with that bin's. Such a |
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> > set would require |
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> > about 50MB and it is not difficult to make a few modified packages for that. |
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> > This build-system could be placed on a gentoo-source cd together with a snapshot of the |
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> > port-tree. |
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> > Then you whould be able to boot with the source-cd and install a build.tbz2 instead of a |
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> > sys.tbz2. |
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> > Then you can chroot to that system and build everything from sources. |
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> > Additionally this offers the possibility to build gentoo from within another |
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> > linux-distro. |
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> > How do you guys think about that? |
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> Sounds rather cool to me. |
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I have made all the required packages for sys-build and currently testing building the |
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sys-stuff on it. |
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I can upload a build.tbz2 tomorrow i think. |
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> Bill |
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