Hello,
> Would you be willing to host a public Wiki & portage overlay? I've been
> using portage for quite some time and now I can say that it's starting
> to be quite easy to just 'emerge' packages for the TS boards.
I'm not too familiar with Gentoo... How does Gentoo handle cross
compiling programs that don't support cross compilation(e.g. PHP) or
programs that have inline assembly(e.g. mpg123). Does Gentoo support the
ARM architecture? I like the idea behind Gentoo it reminds me of the
BSDs, although I've never used it before.
> I would definitely be willing to write the draft howto's to help
> everyone else get started who was interested. And I would certainly be
> willing to contribute any ebuilds and patches that I've already come
> across.
>
> Aside from building various kernels, modules, etc, what I've done so far is:
>
> rebuild glibc userlands from scratch
> rebuild uclibc userlands from scratch
> (using the 2.6 linux kernel headers for compilation)
>
> created patches (mainly for +minimal installs) and corresponding ebuilds
>
> set up several preference files in /etc, like
> /etc/portage/package.{use,mask,unmask} and also savedconfigs for uclibc
> and busybox.
>
> The packages that I've emerged with all of my work range from basic
> things like busybox and zlib to jamvm, gnu-classpath, ftp-servers, and
> even custom software.
>
> After some level of stability has been reached, it's quite likely that
> the gentoo people would host all of the howto documentation and even
> merge some of the ebuild modifications into their own trees.
>
>
> Does that sound like something TS would be willing to put up?
What I don't understand is, if Debian already supports the ARM
architecture why rewrite all of their patches for a new distro. What is
the advantage of Gentoo over Debian?
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