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Hi, all! |
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Project Glentoo is a Google Summer of Code project with the goal of |
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producing a Gentoo based liveCD with a Plan 9 inspired userspace. |
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Earlier in the week, I was dealing with an issue where I was able to |
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boot the generated liveCD, but unable to login. I decided to solve |
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this issue by updating the Glentoo Catalyst spec files against the |
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official spec files used to generate the Gentoo liveCD images. |
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However, after updating the spec files to more closely resemble the |
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official spec files, I ran into an issue where the livecd-stage2 image |
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would fail to build. I spent a couple days trying to debug this issue, |
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but eventually ended up asking the releng team for help. It turns out |
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that they were dealing with the same issue. |
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With the help of #gentoo-releng, we managed to track down what was |
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causing the build failures and a bug report (#371280) has been opened. |
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With the knowledge of why the build is failing, I should be able to |
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hack together a work-around while I wait for an official fix to make |
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its way into the portage tree, which will allow me to continue making |
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progress on Glentoo during the upcoming week. Although not much |
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progress was made this past week, Project Glentoo is still on schedule |
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and I'm confident that X11 integration will proceed smoothly now that |
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we have managed to iron out what was causing the livecd-stage2 build |
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failure. |
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My goal for this upcoming week, then, is the same that it was last |
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week -- namely, to produce a liveCD that drops the user into a Plan 9 |
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GUI environment when booted. I imagine that getting this all together |
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will take most of this upcoming week. Then, the week after, I plan on |
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putting together welcome messages and other such small tweaks and to |
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begin the documentation and a project page for Glentoo. After that is |
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complete, I will have something resembling a version 0.1 of Glentoo. I |
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hope to have that version completed by midterm. As of right now, I'm |
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confident that I'm on track to meet that deadline. |
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Cheers, |
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rps |
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