Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: AJ Armstrong <aja@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] uClibc/Gentoo/buildroot
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 19:59:42
Message-Id: 200311071259.27886.aja@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] uClibc/Gentoo/buildroot by Ned Ludd
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4 On 7 Nov 2003 10:36, Ned Ludd emitted:
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6 > From the pure amount of fundamental changes that are going to be needed
7 > in portage I also suggest that somebody from the dev-portage herd join
8 > the embedded herd or vice versa to help facilitate faster portage
9 > commits in directory's such as /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/portage/bin
10 > which currently seem to take about 30 or more days from when something
11 > is reported.
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13 Although I agree that all ebuilds built for the embedded project should be
14 part of the portage tree (probably need some new categories), so that they
15 could be installed using vanilla emerges on platforms with the guts to
16 support it, should we perhaps consider a new emerge (emberge?, emergemb?,
17 crossmerge?), using many of the portage facilities, but designed to support
18 cross-compiling and building a target filesystem, rather than installing on
19 the local box. This would exist alongside emerge, but have its own config
20 file structure , etc.
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22 The reason I ask is that it occurs to me that some things that we might want
23 (like, for example, multiple target platforms for the same emerge process,
24 platform-specific patching, tracking local source tree changes) would provoke
25 such supstantial changes in portage and things like make.conf that we're
26 unlikely to get them without (1) a long fight (2) giving up some things we
27 want. Also, multi-platform cross-compiler support is such a significant
28 retrofit that I'm wondering if it wouldn't result in either a nasty
29 bag-on-the-side or a second system effect if we try to re-engineer portage.
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