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hi, |
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I just finished compiling the base system on an MMX-130 Mhz with 48MB of |
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Ram. (slow but doable). Note that 48MB were nearly always enough for |
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the compilation! (ok glibc would have liked more ;). |
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I made some observations, and would like to know, which of them are |
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considered as bugs. (so that I can enter them in bugzilla) |
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* why is there an mta-mysql USE flag, and no mta-postgres? |
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* why do you call the postgresql-flag postgres? After all its name is |
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postgresql (you don't call mysql mys) |
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* why are the permissions of /etc/make.conf so strict (only 600 on my |
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machine) (i hope it wasn't me who changed them ;) |
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* as I am behind a firewall, which asks for username and password, I |
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could not use wget. The only program, which is (afaik!) capable of |
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even "tunneling" through an ftp-proxy is lftp. |
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I downloaded a static version (and modified the lftp-get script, so |
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that it accepted a Path-option) and it worked really well. |
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But it took me quite some time to realize that bootstrap doesn't use |
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FETCHCOMMAND. You could at least mention it somewhere. |
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I also really think that lftp is more appropriate than wget. |
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* fortunately I have access to a machine outside the firewall and was |
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therefore able to make the rsync there and then download it via ftp, |
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would be really nice, to do this directly. |
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* why does the installation of grub won't work if /boot is not a |
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partition on its own? (had no cdrom and "installed" the iso-image |
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temporarely on the boot-partition) |
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* my installed system works "worse" than the iso-image. |
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the installation-manual does not explain how to set up the right |
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keyboard and "make menuconfig" shows funny chars instead of the lines. |
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(afaik this is only an Env. variable, but which one) |
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* depscan is maybe not called with the right params in the boot-scripts: |
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depscan: Usage depscan .... |
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* why do you ask users in you manual to execute depmod, if it is in 1 of |
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your boot-scripts? |
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* I guess the best way to avoid "broken" Gentoos because of forgetting |
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the -w option with nano, would be to make an alias right at the |
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beginning. (like nanow) |
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* i think that you should also treat pcmcia a little bit in your |
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install-manual. |
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* because of wrong parameters the pcmcia-boot-script failed. But there |
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was no message. like [ FAIL ] |
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* I have not yet verified the next point: |
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I have a pcmcia-network-card, but because of a race condition (will |
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make a bug-report), I had to remove the net.eth0 script (rc-update del |
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net.eth0), and call it manually. |
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Surprisingly when I halt the system there is still a message: |
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?? Bringing down eth0 ?? which of course fails, because I brought |
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it down already manually. |
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Please note that I do _not_ consider everything I mentioned as bug! |
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christian |
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ps: Gentoo really rocks! |