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Hi! |
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Alexander Berntsen wrote: |
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> > SysRescueCD does not exist for the fringe architectures. |
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> Then make it. That way we will have a reliable install medium for all |
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> architectures, an as an added bonus we will have helped a different |
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> free software project become more useful to our community (i.e. the |
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> free software community, but by extension the Gentoo community as well). |
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This not quite as easy as it may seem. I suspect getting SRCD to |
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work with, say, aboot instead of isolinux. Its build process |
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probably is not accommodating that. Now remember that this has to |
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be modular since there is no point in tending to patches for all |
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the architectures we want. |
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Booting is the most obvious part. But I am reasonably sure that |
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SRCD uses some programs as integral parts that won't build or run |
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reliably on some of the architectures I mentioned. Now you |
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suddenly have to modularize the whole thing. |
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I'm not saying it's impossible, but it surely isn't just a matter |
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of "recompile it for sparc". I might take a look at it over the |
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easter holidays, but I doubt I'll have anything beyond "it's |
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feasible" vs. "it can't work because of X". End note that my |
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expertise is Alpha, I can't speak for any of the other |
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architectures when it comes to feasibility. |
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Regards, |
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Tobias |
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-- |
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"Brain, konban wa nani o shimashitai?" |
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"Your Japanese is terrible, Pinky." |
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