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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:44:49 -0600 (CST), Mike Acord <knowfear@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>I thought I remember somewhere that Gentoo is currently only working on |
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>i386 compatible computers, is this true? |
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I hope not... I want to run it on my PPC iBook! |
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>If so, I think it would be nice to remove all the arch-specific code |
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>for non-i386 from the kernel source (it would make the kernel source |
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>download must faster). |
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As a matter of practice, gentoo is following the "pristine source" |
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philosophy (from FreeBSD ports and others), which means that all |
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downstream modification of vendor packages are done with patches, never |
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in the source tarball itself (so that you can get a source package from |
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anywhere, and as long as the MD5 matches, you're golden). |
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However, if you want to maintain your own kernel source w/o downloading |
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non-i386 code, it's easy... just take any linux-2.4.x.tar.{gz,bz2} you |
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have, remove the i386 code, and then track the official source by |
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applying patches from ftp.xx.kernel.org (using the -t or -f option to |
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patch to make it skip files that can't be found). Then just put those |
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tarballs into your /usr/portage/distfiles directory and change the MD5 |
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in your local .ebuild file. |
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Back when my net connection was a 28.8K wet string, that's how I used to |
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stay current on linux kernels. More work, but beats hours-long |
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downloads. |
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--Mirian |
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