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On 06/12/2021 17:51, Laurence Perkins wrote: |
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> Source Mage is a spinoff of Sourceror and is kind of the opposite of Gentoo. |
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Well, I read the philosophy thing where it said it wasn't comparable |
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with gentoo ... |
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> Gentoo is a source-based distro for people who want things to mostly just work like with the binary distros, but also want to do customizations and optimizations easily. |
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Unfortunately, I can be a bit gruff and not suffer fools gladly. Having |
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had a run in with the bug-wranglers over an issue that completely |
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screwed up my boot (nothing to do with gentoo, admittedly), but that |
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exposed idiotic decisions / other bugs in genkernel, I think I want to |
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look elsewhere. |
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Let's take a 2x2 truth table - do I have a boot partition, do I have |
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"automount boot" switched on. Three of the four options stomp all over |
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the live boot partition. The fourth fatal errors with "wah wah why won't |
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you let me stomp all over your live boot partition". |
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The REASON I don't want it stomping all over that partition is the last |
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time a distro (SUSE) did it, it completely trashed my boot leading to |
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several hours debugging and messing about in the systemd rescue shell to |
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get it bootable again. If anybody is going to trash my live boot, I'd |
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rather it was me, not an Artificial Stupidity software manager. |
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The wranglers' solution was simply to "use the no-install option" - |
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except that that promptly crashed with "can't find input files". Huh? |
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Changing the OUTPUT destination makes the INPUT files disappear? wtf? |
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> Source Mage is a distro for Linux From Scratch folks who are tired of maintaining their own package manager. They don't change*anything* from upstream in their packages, (which makes it really easy to keep "updated" on their end) but the package manager does have a lot of nice features for easily storing whatever patches and configuration changes you choose to make in order to get it running on your system. |
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Well, if I have to get into maintaining emerge to get it to behave |
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sensibly, I might as well try somewhere else and see if it's an |
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improvement. |
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> If you've always wanted to try LFS but tracking package files and patches and configs and so-forth seemed daunting then it's definitely an awesome set of tools. |
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> Otherwise it's kind of a lot of work... |
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Well, given that I've got oodles of space (just added 3TB to my mirror |
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to give myself a 5TB raid-5 /home lvm, along with 1TB root/ lvm, I've |
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got plenty of space to play with distros. And I was shocked - 32GB of |
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DD4 was just over £100, so my new system now has 11TB of hard drive, |
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32GB of RAM, and a hefty 4-core Ryzen processor :-) |
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And the bits from shop screw-up mean the new raid testbed I'm building |
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will be a reasonably hefty system too - 4x1TB drives for hammering with |
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raid, 3TB backup drive, 16GB ram - just the thing for learning to kernel |
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program :-) |
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And seeing as I won't care about trashing it by mistake, I'll be playing |
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with KVM, and all those other fancy technologies to try and run multiple |
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distros stacked on top of each other :-) |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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