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On 10:27 Mon 18 Jul , Robert Seaton wrote: |
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> In addition, I worked on getting portage up and running on the liveCD |
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> image. At first, I tried to ship a copy of sudo so that users could |
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> sudo emerge without being prompted by a password, which is -- I |
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> believe -- randomly generated by the Catalyst build process. However, |
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> there proved to be some problem with the way the liveCD filesystems |
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> are set up and the security mechanisms surrounding /etc/sudoers. Very |
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> cryptic error messages. I ended up just adding '/usr/bin/passwd -d' to |
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> /etc/conf.d/local which deletes the root password on boot. This way |
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> individuals can just run su and then emerge to their hearts content. |
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Don't LiveCDs log you in as root already? If not, how does anyone ever |
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manage to chroot during a Gentoo installation? |
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> Currently, my generated liveCD images are ignoring the portage tree |
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> that I have included in the liveCD overlay. I'm not sure if there is |
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> something about my environment or what is going on. I intend to try |
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> and build a fresh liveCD image after I have successfully ported the |
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> Glendix patches to a newer kernel. Once I get portage working |
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> (hopefully by Tuesday), I will release the generated liveCD image as a |
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> BETA because it is in a pretty usable state and I just saw today that |
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> someone has asked after it. |
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Did you check the /etc/make.conf to make sure it's in PORTDIR_OVERLAY? |
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> Once the project pages, forward porting the Glendix patches, and |
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> getting portage working are complete, I'm going to start working on |
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> porting some of Plan 9's syscalls to the Linux kernel. The goal, as I |
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> mentioned last week, is to get the sam editor from Plan 9 running on |
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> top of a Linux kernel. It would eventually be cool to get every app |
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> from Plan 9 running natively on top of the Linux kernel, but that |
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> would require a lot of invasive changes to Linux and is probably |
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> beyond the scope of this GSoC project. |
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It's only beyond the scope if you run out of time to do it. =) |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Admin, Summer of Code |
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Gentoo Linux and X.Org |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.com |
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