Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: [PREFIX] Bootstrap stable?

[Jon Woodring]

  
  
  
  
  
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Looking at the GSOC, I noticed that it���s mentioned that one of Prefix���s goals is to bring Gentoo to HPC, and actually that���s where I was trying to use Prefix.
I don���t know if you���re familiar with Spack https://spack.io/, but I was exploring using Prefix and portage, because it has a larger community and more features.
Spack grinds my gears because it���s one of my irritations with the HPC and supercomputing community. There���s a lack of due diligence of determining if something else exists, along with a lot of ���not invented here��� syndrome. This results in reinventing something that already exists, but then with fewer features and having a much smaller community to support it, as well.
On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 08:40:59AM +0800, Benda Xu wrote:

Hi Jon,
Jon Woodring woodring@××××.gov writes:

Is there an option for running the bootstrap script to make sure it is using non-tilde packages? (Or maybe latest prefix overlay patches, i.e.��is it a bug?)
I noticed that I couldn���t install prefix with glibc unless I set the package atom to the last non-tilde version (=sys-libs/glibc-2.27-r6).
FYI, it fails with the latest glibc complaining that it can���t find a proper Python environment, which I am guessing, that the patches from the prefix overlay don���t exist? (I���m just hazarding a wild guess.)
If it���s a bug, I can submit a bug report; I wasn���t sure if it was user error or not.

Thank you for your interest. It is a huge bug actually: Prefix has not ever been stabilized.
In the mean while, I am interested in mentoring a motivated student to carry us through the stabilizing process.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019/Ideas#Stabilize_Gentoo_Prefix
Please help spread this GSOC idea to the potential students.
Yours, Benda