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The amazing marvellous always late project is now ready to be announced! |
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http://chinstrap.alternating.net/ |
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What is it: |
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It started as an automated regression test of the tree, I wanted to |
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see how much worked and didn't. From there it moved on to provide GRP |
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builds for fast install, Got a webpage and an ftp, and suddenly had a |
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pretty nice infrastructure in place with mailinglists and all. |
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Here's what it is : |
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Testing, Beta, Trial, premade binaries of common tools in a Gentoo |
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installation. |
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Here's what it isn't : |
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Official Gentoo Project. This was started by me to see how viable it |
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is, and its not an official Gentoo project. |
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Here's how to use it : |
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Edit /etc/make.conf |
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add PORTAGE_BINHOST as one of the following : |
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http://chinstrap.alternating.net/files/binaries/i686/ |
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ftp://ftp.alternating.net/chinstrap/binaries/i686/ |
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emerge -gkvp gnome (For example) |
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Here's what's needed: |
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A pentium 2 class processor. That is "i686", so all Pentium3, Pentium4, |
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Athlon, Athlon-xp should work nicely. This was a tradeoff we had to |
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make due to resource limitations. |
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Here it is : |
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http://chinstrap.alternating.net/ |
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Q/A: |
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My favourite package isn't included! |
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- Doesn't build reliably in an automated environment? |
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- I hadn't thought about it. |
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Things break. Foo doesn't start! |
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- run revdep-rebuild -p and send me the output, along with the |
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filenames + package names that don't work. |
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There are red x all over the screen? is that an error? |
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- nope. thats portage doing the right thing. Scary, isn't it? |
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This is unsafe. |
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- see MD5SUM in the dir, and MD5SUM.asc to verify that the md5's |
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haven't changed. Thats the best I can offer. |
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Does this even work? |
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- We have a few testers that have reported bugs and successess. Overall |
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its been quite good. |
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This is so not Gentoo! |
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-I cut the install down to about an hour, and that includes |
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Gnome, Mozilla, Open Office . Thats a choice I -like- to be able to |
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make. |
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Cool! What can I do? |
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- Reinstall stuffs and try it out? See how things work. Tell me of |
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packages you'd want to see built like this. Even come close to |
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suggesting OpenOffice and I'll....... |
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What issues are there? |
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- A lot of developers are lazy and haven't accorded for "hidden |
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dependencies" and just trust autodetection magic for packages. |
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This causes strange runtime dependencies that arent reproducible at all |
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times. This is the most annoying thing I've been batteling throughout |
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this. |
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Regards |
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Spider at behalf of the Chinstrap project |
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begin .signature |
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This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! |
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See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. |
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