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I've got Portage running on Tiger.2 on a PowerBook G3 (Lombard) right |
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now, and it's working fine. But there are a few questions I'd like |
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to have answered. |
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1. Are we supposed to set USE flags for this platform? The official |
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guide didn't mention it, but I noticed some packages still had USE |
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options (saw this with emerge -v), so I've used some both in my |
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make.conf and at the command line. Is this OK? |
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2. There are a lot of masked packages, but I've noticed that stuff |
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is either masked with ~ppc or missing, and nothing with ~ppc-macos. |
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Is this a bug in Portage, or should I be using ~ppc to install masked |
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packages? |
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3. Come to think of it, is there a way to find out why something is |
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masked? |
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4. CURL sucks. If the server returns a 404, that is saved into the |
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file, which spells disaster for 125 MB downloads over dial-up |
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(NeoOffice/J, not Gentoo but I used CURL). I emerged wget (USE="ipv6 |
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ssl"); what are the commands needed in make.conf to use wget instead |
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of CURL? |
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5. The CFLAG march doesn't seem to work on PPC. I have no problem |
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using mcpu instead, but what's the reason for gcc not marching on PPC? |
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6. Is there a gentoo-ppc-macos-user list, or is this it? (I |
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probably should have asked this one first!) |
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Colin |
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