On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Hi TS guys,
>
> 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.
Yan Seiner has setup a Wiki as a repository for TS7xxx stuff at
http://www.seiner.com/ts7000/index.php/HomePage
Why not ask him if he will give you space on there?
Jim
>
> 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?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> ~/Chris
>
>
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