On May 21, 2009, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to let you know, there's now an ebuild for linux-libre in > gentoo's bugzilla; http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266157
Thanks, I've added a link to this bug to the Linux-libre “binaries” list, under “genfree” (heh, I couldn't help; too plus wan yields free, right?) It's too obscure, I agree, but... who cares? :-) > I did create a version of the build which got the latest vanilla > kernel, added patches, and ran your deblob script, but the script > took a very long time (I gave up after 2 hours), and around 1-1.5G > RAM to run. Even for the "I'd rather be compiling" Gentoo folks, > this makes it a really really long install, so I decided to stick to > just unpacking your pre-prepared tarballs instead (I posted the > deblob version in the ticket too, in case anyone can make use of > it). Taking Free sources and applying patches is a better way to go anyway, why would you want to steer people towards the non-Free Software in upstream just to (hopefully) throw it all away afterwards? :-) Most of the time, patches should apply just fine on top of Linux-libre, but it would be nice to check that they don't add back non-Free stuff, running deblob-check on them, like we do on Freed-ora. These runs of deblob-check are far less demanding of resources, for they're only heuristic, without bringing in all the knowledge (and regexps) about the false positives and known blobs in Linux. > Is my experience of the deblob script being very slow and heavy > common? Is there much we could do about it? Unfortunately, it is normal. There's a long post of mine from a few days ago in which I delve into some experiments I've been doing to try to address this very problem. Look for “flex” and “perl” in http://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2009-May/000610.html -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
