Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans

[Tamás Gérczei]

Hey Benda,

I've just found the time to give your new tarball a go and I'm happy to 
report that now it seems to work. Thanks for pointing out the additional 
pieces of information below, I've taken both note and heed. One nuisance is 
that I've had to add FEATURES="-usersandbox" to make.conf in order to 
silence emerge about 'problems with the sandbox binary'.  Not like that was 
a show-stopper anyway, just a minor annoyance.
I have successfully emerged a few packages I need and can confirm 
operational state.

Thanks for your efforts!

Looking forward to further improvements,
Tamás


On October 3, 2013 8:02:39 AM heroxbd@×××××.com wrote:
> Hey Tamás,
>
> Tamás Gérczei <gerczei.tamas@×××××.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks for both the effort and letting me know - however, all I get is
> > python complaining about a failed getaddrinfo (error 111) trying to
> > resolve the rsync mirror's address,
> > (reordered)
> > The NSes listed in /data/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf should be reachable
> > but I've even tried to modify it to another that CM itself is happy
> > using outside the Prefix.
>
> Sorry, I forgot to prefixify /etc/resolv.conf in the most important
> place, my fault. Now fixed in the tarball at
>        http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/prefix/rap/gentoo.tar.bz2
>
> > lack of write access to emerge.log
>
> > (reordered)
> > I have simply extracted the downloaded tarball manually under /data as
> > root and invoked the startprefix script as the default user my
> > terminal gave me. I've even tried performing the latter as root,
> > however, it made no difference apart from having been able to write
> > emerge.log then.
>
> It's because the tarball is created with root priviledge, and requires
> root to run. We are trying to make it accessible by normal users, but it
> involves substantial work.
>
> > and eventually about lack of a usable temporary directory as
> > well.
> Android do not have /tmp available, as required by FHS. The ultimate
> solution is to find out all the ebuild who use /tmp and prefixify it.
>
> At present, a workaround is to mount tmpfs at /tmp:
>
> # mkdir /tmp; mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp
>
> as documented in
>    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android/tarball#Worthy_Notes
>
> We could include this hack into startprefix though...
>
> > This surfaces right upon entering the Prefix and trying to sync it.
>
> Yes, I reproduced that. I should've tested more thoroughly.
> > At this point I have no use for this at all other than sheer curiosity
> > as a Gentoo enthusiast so consider this low-priority, especially of
> > someone else ends up suceeding on a different ROM. I'd also accept the
> > above were it up to my ROM of choice, however, I know almost nothing
> > about Android so I couldn't come to conclusions of my own.
>
> This is high-priority. You feedback is crucial, and I'm very
> appreciated. Thank you for your time.
>
> Cheers,
> Benda
>