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Hello everyone, |
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As you may know, I'm involved of this SoC project, mentored by Davide Italiano. |
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It's a great project and I'm very happy to take part of it! |
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A quick sum-up: the goal is to bring, as the end of the SoC, a tarball |
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containing a complete environnement to use NetBSD 5.0/x86 with Portage. |
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First steps were to set up a fresh install of NetBSD 5.0 and to install Portage |
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dependencies using pkgsrc (Python, gmake, and other apps). |
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Then, I've fetched Portage tools at |
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http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage/main/trunk/ using Subversion, tags 2.1.6. |
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I've been surprised by the fact I needed to change very few things in Portage source code. |
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Yes, some binaries paths, but that's all. My 2 cents to Portage developpers. |
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Currently, I'm writing ebuilds to emerge different parts of the system: |
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cross-compilation tools, gcc, includes headers, libc, etc. In fact, ebuilds are a |
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front-end to NetBSD's source Makefiles: NetBSD developpers have achieved a huge |
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work and it's very easy to cross-compile the system or just a part of it. At |
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the end of the month, I should be able to emerge the whole system, using my |
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ebuilds. Ebuilds internal are well documented at http://devmanual.gentoo.org, |
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it's always a pleasure to find well-explained documentation. |
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People interested in tracking down my work can connect to this link: |
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http://projects.boulz.org/trac/gentoo-nbsd |
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It's a Subversion repository where I push my code, interfaced with Trac. Each |
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time I can, I post some news to explain my progress. I've also opened the |
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NetBSD work station where I make my tests to the Internet; people interested in |
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"live testing" ebuilds can contact me on IRC (monsieurp @ #gentoo-soc / |
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#gentoo-bsd) or mail (this one). I'll try to provide them a shell where they'll |
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be able to connect using SSH. |
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As usual, comments and/or suggestions are welcome, don't hesitate to ping me, |
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I'm always idling around on IRC and I'll be glad to take some time to answer |
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you. :) |
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Cheers ! |
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Patrice |
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