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Author: rieggepp |
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Date: Thu Jul 3 02:27:40 2008 |
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trunk/tools/rebuild_stages/README |
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+Welcome to rebuild-stages! |
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+========================== |
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+ |
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+This is a Makefile i wrote in order to rebuild stage3s for different |
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chosts. I |
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+wrote it during googel summer of code 2007 and improved a little after |
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that. I |
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+did not like gnap_make at that time, because there was too much |
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hackery to do |
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+to get the dependencies right and what not, so i decided to |
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reimplement some |
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+of the functionality in a Makefile. On the long run it could be |
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interesting to |
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+replace some of gnap_makes' functionality by a Makefile. |
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+ |
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+Howto use rebuild-stages: |
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+========================= |
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+ |
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+I used it like that: |
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+1) Create directory for your needs. I created one for test builds (-latest |
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+ portage snapshots) and one for release builds (_date directories). |
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+2) Copy Makefile from i386-uclibc or any other existing dir there. |
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Other files |
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+ might be needed to, best check which files in already existing |
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subdirs are |
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+ in svn. Theese are likely to be needed. |
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+3) Change everythign you want in the Makefile and the other files. Interesting |
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+ are the directory where you mirror gentoo/snapshots. I implemented |
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it this |
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+ way because then make can apply its checks. (Is -latest already the latest |
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+ snapshot? If not, just copy it there.) |
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+4) Type make. If you have problems, read the source. |
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+ |
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+Some more information: |
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+====================== |
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+ |
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+_date suffixes: |
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+--------------- |
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+ |
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+For each chost there exists a drectory with _date as a suffix and one without. |
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+I used the one without do do fast builds with a -latest portage |
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snapshot from |
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+the mirrors. If that worked, I checked the date of the -latest |
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snapshot and |
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+rebuild the stage in the _date dir with that exact snapshot, not using any |
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+package cache or thing like that. |
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+ |
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+tinderbox/stage4/livecd: |
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+------------------------ |
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+ |
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+I added rundimentary tinderbox support. The packages mentioned there |
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are built |
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+but not copied to the workdir, like stages1-3. I did not use it that |
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much. I |
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+never had a build configuration that worked, since some packages |
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depended on a |
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+kernel and I got problems there. I did not investigate them too much, |
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so if |
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+anyone wants the feature, it should be easy to do. I got livecdstage1 |
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to build, but got problems with livecdstage2 due to kernel stuff. This |
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should also be |
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+easy to resolve for people familiar with building livecds with catalyst. |
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