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Bruce Schultz <brulzki <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> Note that default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a profile is building on the |
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> arch/arm/armv7a (what you searched against). |
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I think all possible profiles for each and every type of gentoo install |
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should either be readily available on any installed gentoo system, or |
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on the net or otherwise easy to parse. |
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> As I understand it, the profiles in arch/arm don't contain any packages |
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files, so there's no <at> system packages to list (as you found). I presume |
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that the arch/arm/... profiles are intended to define compiler flags etc for |
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cpu variants, and are used as a basis of a more complete profile (such as |
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default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a). If you look through |
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/usr/portage/profiles/profiles.desc, you see the list of all profiles which |
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would be selectable through 'eselect profile', and I don't find and arch/... |
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profiles listed in there. |
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Correct. It's an inconsistent mess, imho. Being able to readily parse |
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the packages on a given (arch/processor/profile) install would be a keen |
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tool before making hardware purchases. Embedded to full distro are blurring |
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the landscape, particularly as arm64 emerges. Also, my cluster build work is |
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surprisingly revealing that HPC and general prupose clusters are best build |
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on bare metal or embedded linux systems, particularly but not limited to |
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performance gains. Gentoo use to "king" in the embedded linux space |
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and it's an odd (for sure) reality that building clusters, clouds or data |
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centers on embedded linux is moving forward at a very rapid pace. |
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I certainly do not wish to alienate or detract from the excellent work our |
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dev community has achieved. But, embedded (gentoo) linux and cluster/cloud |
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computing could easily put gentoo on top of the heap again. Surely gentoo is |
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uniquely positioned to build clusters that are not on top of 'bloatware'! |
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> Hope that helps... |
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> Bruce |
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YES, and I appreciated every comment! |
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later, |
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James |