Re: [gentoo-dev] Patching vanilla-sources with genpatches in catalyst

2016-09-23 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-09-23 16:02, James McMechan wrote: What patches were you thinking are needed for a live CD? I would expect that either a vanilla or gentoo kernel would handle being on a live CD without problems. What is giving you trouble that you are aiming for 4.8-rc6, I have not seen many problems.

[gentoo-dev] Patching vanilla-sources with genpatches in catalyst

2016-09-17 Thread alexmcwhirter
For my sparc64 port, i need a livecd with kernel 4.8-rc6 that is patched to work on a livecd. I'm not going to expect gentoo-sources to be released for this kernel, and hacking up the kernel eclass for 4.8-rc6 doesn't seem like the right way to go. So i was looking for some input on the best

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building a portage repo?

2016-09-14 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-09-14 03:40, Michał Górny wrote: Portage is the package manager. The repository is named gentoo. Please use correct names because till the last paragraph, I thought you were actually referring to the package manager (and wtf-ed why would you distribute its sources via rsync). Sorry,

[gentoo-dev] Building a portage repo?

2016-09-14 Thread alexmcwhirter
In my work on a sparc64 port of Gentoo i have found it easier to just fork the portage repo, patch things, and merge upstream changes / resolve conflicts as they happen. The problem is that this isn't really the best way to test things on any kind of scale. My plan is to build a script that

Re: [gentoo-dev] recent glibc commit breaks boost on sparc64

2016-09-09 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-09-09 00:17, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 18:49:06 -0400 alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: I'm in the process of rebuilding a new livecd via catalyst with this commit reverted just to be sure this is the issue, but this is the only libc commit since my last build. It usually

[gentoo-dev] recent glibc commit breaks boost on sparc64

2016-09-08 Thread alexmcwhirter
I'm in the process of rebuilding a new livecd via catalyst with this commit reverted just to be sure this is the issue, but this is the only libc commit since my last build. It usually takes about 48 hours for a full stage1 - livecd build so i wont know for sure until then. commit:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sparc Arch status

2016-08-15 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-08-15 22:54, Jack Morgan wrote: Following up to my email from a year ago We do have some people in the community who are interested in sparc. In fact, we have one kernel developer who would like to get multilib working. In addition, I have two who are interested in helping by

[gentoo-dev] libfm requires dbus-glib to build, but it is not listed as a dependency.

2016-08-11 Thread alexmcwhirter
The title pretty much explains it all. I did a clean install using the generic desktop profile and went on to build lxqt. The build failed with libfm which complained of dbus-glib not being found. A quick emerge of dbus-glib resolved the issue. this would be libfm-1.2.3-r1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a new mentor...

2016-07-21 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-20 21:55, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:13:56 -0400 alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: I've been working towards becomming a gentoo developer for while now in order to bring the sparc port up to speed with the rest of the gentoo project. In short there appear to be no

[gentoo-dev] Looking for a new mentor...

2016-07-20 Thread alexmcwhirter
I've been working towards becomming a gentoo developer for while now in order to bring the sparc port up to speed with the rest of the gentoo project. In short there appear to be no active gentoo developers working on sparc. I had a mentor earlier this year, but i can no longer get in touch