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Hi, |
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Lots (+- 4G) of new ppc stuff for the QA guys: |
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- A |
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kde3.2.2/gnome-2.6.0.1/fluxbox-0.9.9/xfce4/xorg-x11/koffice-1.3/ |
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openoffice-ximian-.55/3ddesktop livecd with lots of multimedia tools |
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(ardour,jack,...) and of course mac-on-linux |
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- Updated profiles, allowing for NPTL builds. Every single application |
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masked stable has been tested against 2.6.6 headers and patched if |
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necessary. |
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- GCC-3.3.3_hammer (20040408-r1) as default compiler, with glibc-2.3.3 |
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(20040420-r1) |
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- Packages CDs for each subarch, including G5. (700M each) |
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- Every category in the portage tree was audited for stale keywording |
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etc (search google for "PPC stable profile update"). Our stable profile |
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is rock solid and bleeding edge. |
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- The same livecd kernels as 2004.1, but also with third-party SATA |
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support as per request. |
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- PPC-only kernels merged with multi-arch kernel ebuilds, PPC migrated |
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to kernel-2.eclass. (gentoo-dev-sources is our recommended kernel) |
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- Snapshot made 20040603 (over 120G GRP builds on a two-daily basis |
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before to come to a stable profile, with tested toolchains etc.) |
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Extra features that might be implemented before the official 2004.2 |
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release date: |
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- GCC-3.4 with glibc-2.3.4 and binutils-.15-3-r3 (waiting for upstream |
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patches to for instance openoffice, but works fine otherwise - likely |
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to be at least in ppc testing profile). |
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- CHRP support for the livecd (can't test myself, so depends on my |
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upstream bandwidth) |
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- 64bit kernel on the 32-bit livecds (likely, if gcloop is made 64bit |
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compatible, and the 32bit bootloader correctly loads the initrd at the |
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right position in memory, seems to be broken only for zimage, not |
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vmlinux) |
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- biarch toolchain (maybe limited support - portage multilib support is |
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lacking anyway) |
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- xeasyconf-ng - send dams@g.o your working X11 configs for |
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training the app. |
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We are also in the process of updating the PPC faq and website with |
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tons of useful info from the forums. The all 2004.2 relevant changes |
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(gentoo-dev-sources as default kernel) have been integrated in the |
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handbook |
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The stages and snapshots are online, the package cds are uploading. |
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bootable livecds will be at the end of my upload queue. As usual my |
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upload is the unpredictable factor, I'll try to upload different cds in |
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parallel at my parents house, a friends house, where I live, and maybe |
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at sejo's place. Worst case everything is uploaded by tuesday. Will |
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ping again when uploaded. |
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Thnxs to all for making this possible. |
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Best regards, |
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Pieter Van den Abeele |
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