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Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> David Cummings wrote: |
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>>Second, if I wanted to move to a n32 userland, without |
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>>reinstalling from netboot, what would be the steps involved? A change |
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>>of profile, emerge system && emerge world? or emerge --newuse --deep |
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>>world all in itself. |
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> Currently, this would require a complete reinstall. In any case, n32 |
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> userland is really not ready for general consumption yet. There are |
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> known bugs that we haven't squashed, and that could cause serious pain |
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> to end users. |
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I'll vouch for this. Yes, I do have a machine (an Indigo 2 Impact, |
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a.k.a IP28) running a n32 userland. So far, I've been damn lucky with |
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the machine, and most things, *just work*. KDE 3.3.2 IMHO runs like a |
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dream. |
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KDE 3.4.1 however is a whole different ballgame, very unstable... |
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sneeze, and the whole damn thing falls in a heap. |
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As yet, I have not successfully compiled Gnome on this system either. |
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It's better than it was... but it's still got a long way to go. :-) |
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If you're extremely brave, then sure, run a n32 root. Otherwise, what |
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I'd suggest... create a directory called /n32... and unpack the stage |
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tarball in there. Then, when you want to play with n32, just `chroot |
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/n32`, and away you go. :-) |
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I'm already doing something similar to try and build up some sort of n64 |
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userland, as well as an n32 image for MIPS3 (the current ones are MIPS4). |
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