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Hi, all. |
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Plan 9 From Gentoo is a GSoC 2011 project to combine a Plan 9 inspired |
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userspace with a Linux kernel. |
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This week I worked on porting the Glendix patches to a newer kernel. I |
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currently have everything in a buildable state and I was just waiting |
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for Anant to help me figure out the parameters for two functions. He |
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got back to me yesterday, so I should be able to complete porting the |
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patches to a newer kernel sometime today. |
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In addition, I worked on getting portage up and running on the liveCD |
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image. At first, I tried to ship a copy of sudo so that users could |
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sudo emerge without being prompted by a password, which is -- I |
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believe -- randomly generated by the Catalyst build process. However, |
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there proved to be some problem with the way the liveCD filesystems |
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are set up and the security mechanisms surrounding /etc/sudoers. Very |
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cryptic error messages. I ended up just adding '/usr/bin/passwd -d' to |
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/etc/conf.d/local which deletes the root password on boot. This way |
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individuals can just run su and then emerge to their hearts content. |
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Currently, my generated liveCD images are ignoring the portage tree |
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that I have included in the liveCD overlay. I'm not sure if there is |
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something about my environment or what is going on. I intend to try |
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and build a fresh liveCD image after I have successfully ported the |
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Glendix patches to a newer kernel. Once I get portage working |
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(hopefully by Tuesday), I will release the generated liveCD image as a |
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BETA because it is in a pretty usable state and I just saw today that |
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someone has asked after it. |
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One other thing I completed this week: I contacted Robin about setting |
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up a project page. Currently, I have a test page up at |
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http://soc.dev.gentoo.org/~rps/plan9/ . Once I finish porting the |
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Glendix patches to a newer kernel and have a liveCD image generated |
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with portage working, I'm going to work on fleshing out the Plan 9 |
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From Gentoo project page. So far I'm thinking about having an |
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introductory project page, an FAQ, and a page about remastering Plan 9 |
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From Gentoo. I may add more pages as they occur to me. |
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Once the project pages, forward porting the Glendix patches, and |
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getting portage working are complete, I'm going to start working on |
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porting some of Plan 9's syscalls to the Linux kernel. The goal, as I |
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mentioned last week, is to get the sam editor from Plan 9 running on |
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top of a Linux kernel. It would eventually be cool to get every app |
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from Plan 9 running natively on top of the Linux kernel, but that |
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would require a lot of invasive changes to Linux and is probably |
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beyond the scope of this GSoC project. I intend to get as much of Plan |
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9 working on top of Linux as I can, though. |
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Cheers, |
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rps |
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