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On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:23:53 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: |
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> Hi François, |
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> On 06/08/2012 02:13 AM, François Bissey wrote: |
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> > There are a lot of ebuilds masked by EAPI=4, as the bootstrap portage only |
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> > support EAPI=<3. |
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> > |
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> > With 2.3.0 all versions of perl are masked either by missing keywords or |
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> > EAPI=4. |
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> > |
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> > Does bootstrapping on aix require special instructions that I have missed? |
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> Unfortunately, for way too long time now I didn't find time to keep |
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> prefix-launcher up-to-date enough to keep being able to bootstrap current |
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> Prefix. The most important thing to do would be upgrading portage itself, |
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> which requires upgrading to python-2.7. |
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> However, in theory, prefix-launcher doesn't do much more than what is shown |
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> in the bootstrap guides, except to bundle these commands into one |
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> super-package. In fact, prefix-launcher isn't much more than what is |
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> $EPREFIX/tmp in the bootstrap guides. |
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> But I'm not aware of anyone having tried to bootstrap along the bootstrap |
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> guide for Solaris on AIX (or Interix) yet - actually I'm surprised to see |
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> some conditions for these platforms in bootstrap-prefix.sh. |
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> One of the major features of prefix-launcher over the current guide is to be |
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> able to carry and apply patches for various packages, which often is |
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> necessary for the more exotic platforms like AIX, Interix, HP-UX. This most |
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> likely is because these platforms are rarely available to the upstream |
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> package maintainers to test on. |
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> So you're welcome to either provide patches for prefix-launcher (trunk) to |
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> upgrade to python-2.7 and current prefix-portage, or try fixing the Solaris |
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> bootstrap guide for AIX. |
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> /haubi/ |
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> PS: I do have buildbot slaves doing weekly Prefix bootstraps (32bit only) |
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> using prefix- launcher-trunk on a bunch of different platforms - including |
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> AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, as well as various HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, Interix boxes |
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> - failing for too long time now. |
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OK, thanks for the answer in any case. I will see what I can do by myself. |
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I will send progress reports here. I'll just need to make some time to work |
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on it. |
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Francois |
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