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Hi, all. |
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Project Glentoo is a GSoC project to combine a Plan 9 userspace with a |
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Gentoo base system. |
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Early in the week, I managed to hack together a work around for the |
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issue the #gentoo-releng team was facing last week, but we're still |
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waiting for the core team to come up with an official fix to the |
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baselayout issue (bug #371280). I ran into some more issues with the |
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catalyst build tool, but generating fresh stage1 - 3 cleared |
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everything up. |
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On Wednesday, I spent some time trying to get distcc working on an |
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Amazon EC2 high-compute instance to speed up generation of the process |
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of building a liveCD image, seeing as it takes quite some time to |
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generate a fresh image on my aging core2duo. I still haven't managed |
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to get that working, but it's something I plan to continue to look |
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into during the upcoming week. |
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By Thursday, I had successfully generated a new Glentoo liveCD image, |
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but ran into a problem: the image doesn't automatically log the user |
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in like the official install media, so it's not very useful. I |
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debugged for hours, eventually finding out via #gentoo-releng that |
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this is an issue that the x86 maintainer is aware of. He said that he |
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is going to ask someone (don't remember who) about leveraging PAM for |
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use with the official install media to auto-login and deprecating the |
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livecd-tools package. |
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While waiting for a fix for the login issue, I've started working on |
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X11 integration, which is what I'd originally planned to spend the |
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week on. I'll be unable to test if it works until the login issue is |
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fixed, but I figure that I can at least get it building while I wait. |
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Right now, I'm running into a build issue with Python -- something I |
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hope to fix in the upcoming week. |
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For this upcoming week, I plan on getting the xorg-x11 package built |
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and installed as part of the liveCD generation process. After I manage |
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to get that done, I'm going to either work on a project page for |
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Glentoo or write some documentation for Catalyst, seeing as the |
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current documentation is quite sparse. I also might work on getting |
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distcc via an Amazon EC2 instance running so that I can generate |
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images faster. |
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I think the project is progressing at a steady rate, albeit slowly. |
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Hopefully, once this login issue is cleared up, I will stop being |
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plagued by build issues. I can dream, can't I? Anyways, Glentoo is |
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still on schedule to be at the point I originally planned for midterm. |
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Cheers, |
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rps |
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