Hello everyone,

As you may know, I'm involved of this SoC project, mentored by Davide Italiano.
It's a great project and I'm very happy to take part of it!

A quick sum-up: the goal is to bring, as the end of the SoC, a tarball
containing a complete environnement to use NetBSD 5.0/x86 with Portage.

First steps were to set up a fresh install of NetBSD 5.0 and to install Portage
dependencies using pkgsrc (Python, gmake, and other apps).

Then, I've fetched Portage tools at
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage/main/trunk/ using Subversion, tags 2.1.6. 
I've been surprised by the fact I needed to change very few things in Portage source code. 
Yes, some binaries paths, but that's all. My 2 cents to Portage developpers.

Currently, I'm writing ebuilds to emerge different parts of the system:
cross-compilation tools, gcc, includes headers, libc, etc. In fact, ebuilds are a
front-end to NetBSD's source Makefiles: NetBSD developpers have achieved a huge
work and it's very easy to cross-compile the system or just a part of it. At
the end of the month, I should be able to emerge the whole system, using my
ebuilds. Ebuilds internal are well documented at http://devmanual.gentoo.org, 
it's always a pleasure to find well-explained documentation.

People interested in tracking down my work can connect to this link:
http://projects.boulz.org/trac/gentoo-nbsd
It's a Subversion repository where I push my code, interfaced with Trac. Each
time I can, I post some news to explain my progress. I've also opened the
NetBSD work station where I make my tests to the Internet; people interested in
"live testing" ebuilds can contact me on IRC (monsieurp @ #gentoo-soc /
#gentoo-bsd) or mail (this one). I'll try to provide them a shell where they'll
be able to connect using SSH.

As usual, comments and/or suggestions are welcome, don't hesitate to ping me,
I'm always idling around on IRC and I'll be glad to take some time to answer
you. :)

Cheers !

Patrice