Re: [gentoo-alt] Mock up Linux bootstrap guide

[Rabbe Fogelholm]

Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:24 +0200, rabbe@×××××××.se wrote:
>> What a great initiative! At work I am using enterprise SUSE and Red Hat
>> machines that suffer from lack of Gentoo. I'll see if I can get Prefix
>> Gentoo up on any of them.
>
> For x86-linux as well as x86-solaris, using[1] eprefix-bootstrap[2]
> through prefix-launcher[3] should work already.
>
> Although prefix-launcher itself builds for ppc-aix, sparc-solaris,
> hppa-hpux, ia64-hpux, x86-interix, amd64-linux (and maybe others) too,
> the prefix-tree has not come that far yet ;)
>
> Why prefix-launcher and/or eprefix-bootstrap ?
>
> They do similar things as found in the guide[4], but more elaborate:
>
> prefix-launcher installs the different cmdline tools, including wget,
> GNU tar, GNU patch, gcc, python, bash as well as portage, but is able to
> patch them, which is required for some platforms.
>
> In the end it installs a script eprefix-bootstrap[4], which creates the
> fully portage-managed prefix tree.
>
> This is similar to what bootstrap-prefix.sh[5] is guided to do with
> python into $EPREFIX/tmp.
>
> eprefix-bootstrap then bootstraps your eprefix, including the last
> 'emerge -e world'.
>
> [1] http://prefix-launcher.wiki.sourceforge.net/
> [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/prefix-launcher/
>>> [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-linux.xml
> [4] http://prefix-launcher.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/prefix-launcher/eprefix-bootstrap/trunk/eprefix-bootstrap?view=markup
> [5] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/browser/trunk/prefix-overlay/scripts/bootstrap-prefix.sh
>
> so long,
> /haubi/

Thanks for the links! I might try them out too; any way that works is a
good way.

--Rabbe Fogelholm

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