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

[Benda Xu]

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