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All, |
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I wanted to send out an update on the Sparc arch team status. My overall |
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plan is to reduce the total number of keywords for sparc to a more |
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manageable level. I'd like to continue to have sparc be a stable arch |
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for gentoo for as long as it makes sense. I'm hoping to get some |
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feedback from the community as to what should be supported and what can |
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be reduced. |
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(1) Bugzilla |
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At the time of writing, here is the bug count for sparc. There is a good |
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amount of keywording to do here and I'll start working on these in a week. |
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sparc: total (172), keywordreq (67), stablereq(85) |
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(2) Installation (Wiki/Releng) |
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The documentation is up to date and accurate. Thanks doc team! I |
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recently did a fresh install so the current iso and stage3 work well. |
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The stage3 need to be updated because they include perl-18 instead of |
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perl-20. Otherwise, the install process is stable on my system. |
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(3) Infra |
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There is one developer machine[1] to use for keyword testing. Please |
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request access from the contact in you would like a shell account. |
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(4) Profiles |
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(a) systemd support |
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I tried for several days to get systemd working on sparc. systemd just |
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seg faulted on boot up. In fact, I had trouble getting udev to start. It |
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just produced an error "ignoring: Invalid argument error initializing |
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netlink socket" and didn't start. Since udev didn't start, i was not |
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able to log in nor ssh (no network interface found). I made the switch |
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to eudev and eudev started just fine. I'll file a couple of bugs in a |
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week and go from there. I'll work with the systemd team to resolve these |
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problems. |
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(b) gnome/kde desktop support |
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I'd like to propose dropping support for gnome/kde desktop if systemd |
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isn't supported on sparc. I'm note sure it makes sense long term nor |
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have developer resources to continue to keyword it. I have a couple of |
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desktop systems so can test easily but running xfce4 atm. I'm open to |
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others opinions. |
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(c) java support |
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The java team said they don't have cycles to support sparc. Support |
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would have to come from the sparc team or the community. Unless someone |
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steps up to help out with java, I'll propose to drop support on sparc. |
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Thanks to the java team for helping us know what needs to be done to |
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support java or not. |
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(5) anything else? |
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Is there anything I missed? Other sections of gentoo? |
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[1]https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Developer_Machines |
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Thanks, |
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Jack Morgan |
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Pub 4096R/761D8E0A 2010-09-13 Jack Morgan <jmorgan@g.o> |
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