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(Sending all this to the ML, because I have the impression that leaving |
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it all in an IRC channel means it goes > /dev/null, whereas probably |
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more people read the ML. IMO we should use the ML more often.) |
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Yesterday I started on the creation of binary packages in my ppc-macos |
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install. For this I rebootstrapped with a long prefix, I will shortly |
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explain why. |
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I want to try to use these binary packages to aid bootstrapping, and to |
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make things like obtaining ghc easier. (Compiling ghc can only be done |
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if you already have a ghc installed ... :( ) Thanks to the Portage |
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devs, Portage has some binhost stuff built-in which should allow you to |
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easily retrieve packages from an external website. The net-result would |
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be to just only once compile gcc (if you care enough about it), instead |
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of at least twice, as it is now. |
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Thanks to patrick (bonsaikitten @irc.freenode.net) we got some gigs of |
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storage on a server with a decent (fast) internet connection, which soon |
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is supposed to pop up as prefix.gentooexperimental.org. |
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While it sounds like this is a Gentoo thing, unfortunately it is not. |
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However, it is the only way for now to try this stuff out, as binary |
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packages require quite some storage/bandwidth which Gentoo Infra doesn't |
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have for us. If these binary packages work out, hopefully eventually we |
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will be able to have our stuff on Gentoo hosted infrastructure. |
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As for the binary packages; Gentoo Prefix Portage (tm) is equipped with |
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a small (but horribly ugly) hack to transform a binary package from |
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prefix A into prefix B. It effectively changes all occurrences of A |
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into B in such a way that this also works in binary code. Some padding |
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is applied to make sure the file-offsets are kept the same. However, |
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this means that a package can never be changed to work in a prefix that |
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is as string longer than the prefix that it was made with. For this |
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reason I am bootstrapping in a ridiculously long prefix (106 chars) such |
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that most people will be able to use these packages, because most people |
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have a simple prefix, like /Users/you/Gentoo. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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