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On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:18:51PM -0400, derosa wrote: |
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>E3 that's the editor written in assembler right ? |
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>I will just make vim part of the base system tarball for the alpha port, |
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>other items will of course have to change also, no more grub or lilo, and I |
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>will have to add milo for booting. |
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>I will continue to play with the latest snapshots. |
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>I also had an idea, for people stuck behind a nasty firewall, or no internet |
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>connection, that want to build everything. |
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>Have a special build cd, that has a 'snapshot' of the distfiles needed for a |
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>build, and emerge system. And the snapshot from cvs equivolent to whats on |
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>the disk. I have been using this method, on a couple of boxes at work, and |
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>it seems to work well for me. I use the build cd as a base, and just add the |
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>build tarball, and cvs tarball along with the distfiles. |
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I for one second this, I'd think the only source that needed to be on the |
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cd would be the stuff bootstrap.sh needed, the kernel source, pcmcia |
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source and a "base system" Granted it would increase the size of the |
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build.iso but it would indeed be worth it. |
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Thoughts? |
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>Joe |
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>> > I have recently set up an alpha machine running rh 7.1. I would like to |
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>port |
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>> > gentoo to the alpha chipset. My questions: Are there any parts of the |
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>> > portage tree that are binary ? Would it make more sense to start from |
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>rc6 |
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>> > build or rc5 build ? |
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>> Um; the e3 editor won't work for you. That's a minor issue. Other than |
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>> you should be OK. Start with an rc6 build image in about a week. |
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Ben Lutgens |
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