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Stefaan wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> I hope you excuse my private e-mail, but I thought it unfriendly to |
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> bother all the platforms in CC with this. |
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don't worry, I'll CC the gentoo-osx list. Maybe someone else has some |
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better ideas/input. |
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> I've just found a machine with powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 (I hope that |
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> falls under gentoo-ppc-macos?). |
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Yes, officially Darwin 7 (Panther) and 8 (Tiger) are supported. |
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> I have an account on it, but I don't |
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> think its owner will appreciate even the question whether I can |
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> install gentoo in a chroot on it. |
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I don't think so. Though I'm not really sure. Please beware that |
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Gentoo/OSX is very different to the other "Gentoos" in the sense that it |
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is more "Portage on top of OSX". This means we rely on OSX's tools |
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where possible. A side effect from this, is that Portage does not have |
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full control over all of the software that it 'knows' about. It is |
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currently a complex issue, and I won't bother you with ongoing |
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discussions and problems. |
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> I was able to get openafs to compile. I however do realize that |
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> init-scripts etc. will probably be totally different, as module |
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> loading will not be the same etc. etc. Though this is not a sign of |
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> an working ebuild, it does seem that adapting the current one to |
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> support this platform is quite doable. |
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I didn't even try to hack the ebuild to start compilation. I suspect |
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that there might be something possible to compile, but to use it with |
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Gentoo, it would require big modifications to the ebuilds. If it would |
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be able to run anyway. I don't know if there is OpenAFS in OSX by default. |
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In the light of all these problems, I propose to keep openafs |
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unkeyworded for ppc-macos for now. As soon as someone reports a bug |
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that it doesn't work or that it does but with a patch etc. via Bugzilla, |
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I'd like to invest some time into it. I suspect that noone really needs |
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it on the current ppc-macos portage, and that 'porting' this ebuild will |
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be considerably easier in a next generation of Gentoo/OSX. Hence, I'd |
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like to save us lots of work for now ;) |
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Please someone from the list, respond in either way on my proposal here |
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to have some more weight into this discussion. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo for Mac OS X |
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