Gentoo

On Monday I helped Ned fixing ebuilds using the following DEPEND/RDEPEND: 1 *DEPEND=" || ( app-admin/eselect-compiler >=sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.1 )" Problems only popped up because app-admin/eselect-compiler got masked due to numerous, unresolved bugs (and Jeremy/eradicator being MIA again). But that also revealed a bug within portage on handling the || ( a b ), where a is being masked. So solar and I had being working on updating those ebuilds that use the above syntax (or something similar, some are using other versions, thanks Sven for the hint/reminder). ...

Ok, as I said earlier I’m currently reinstalling my system from scratch (to finally and completly get rid of stupid eselect-compiler). The first attempt was a bit, ehrm, error-prone (as in unpacking stage3-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2, chroot ing to that and running emerge -ek system). Result was a b0rked chroot after the first two packages (heh, it was pulling in =sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r3 as the second package, thus everything that hasn’t been merged from my binpkg-repo and still originating from the snapshot being broken). ...

Since I got annoyed by umlauts being printed as ░, I figured I’d install a UTF-8 capable font on this box here and all my problems would be gone. But not so fast. screen is a real fucked up thing. If you’re starting screen via screen -U everything is nice and cosy, and you get your UTF-8 goodness. But, don’t think you’ll get away with just enabling UTF-8 as default and enabling UTF-8 for each new window by doing this: ...

OK, since Alex asked me last Sunday what exactly needs to be done to turn a simple chroot (or even a bloody box) into a binpkg producing environment, here’s a little howto … First, lets start from a freshly unpacked stage3. 1 2 3 4 5 catalyst/x86 stage3-amd64-hardened # chroot . /bin/bash --login # Now, make sure you turn on FEATURES=buildpkg # (and setup anything else you need, like CFLAGS, # LDFLAGS, whatever) linux # echo 'FEATURES="buildpkg"' >> /etc/make.conf With that single change you’re basically nearly finished with setting up the whole thing, the remaining things are just ...

For what it’s worth, I’ve been trying to get some stages together the last few days. Thanks to solar and Brent, the ppc-stages are now coming along quite fast. I haven’t really tested them yet, but for what it’s worth, you’ll find stages based on Saturday’s snapshot (that is 200780105 for those not smart enough to take a look at the calendar) here for the following profiles: uclibc/ppc (normal/-softfloat) uclibc/ppc/hardened uclibc/x86 uclibc/x86/hardened hardened/amd64 hardened/amd64/nomultilib hardened/x86/2.6 (x86/i686) Now remember, this isn’t official release material. This is just MY effort ( for now) to provide current stages. ...

So I ended up cleaning out some retired (~20) people from metadata.xml, where I found this interesting piece of metadata.xml: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 kernel-misc crypto@gentoo.org Crypto herd masterdriverz@gentoo.org Charlie Shephered And here the hint for all you people again: A DAMN HERD AIN’T NO MAINTAINER. SO IF YOUR HERD IS MAINTAINING A PACKAGE, PUT IT INTO and not into the . kthnxbye.

As I pointed out back in October, it’s rather easy to create a setup which syncs a built binary package to a remote node (which is serving them to the world - via http,rsync,ftp - pick your poison). Now, ever since we had slight space problems on miranda ( 🤕 my binpkgs 🤕), I wanted to look into methods on how to get rid of storing them on the buildnode and the webnode. I think now (hehe, it’s only 7pm), I finally managed to get a " proper" bashrc which does a lot of that foo. Take a look at this: ...

For those of you, still using my binary packages. It’s just a waste of disk space for me (6.8G to be exact), so I decided to remove them. I’m gonna give people one week to grab yourself a copy. I’m gonna keep the bashrc and all the other stuff I wrote back when I was still interested in binary packages, but the binary packages are gonna vanish! ...

Just like I announced last week, my binary packages repository is now history. I’m gonna remove the redirections from lighttpd and DNS in a few.

Well, it’s been a loong time since I first thought about retiring (yes, I know that #-dev’s topic states " developer blogs" ain’t for announcing important things, but my blog has to do for this; if not, I don’t care anymore :!: ). But I think it’s about time for me to leave. I haven’t done much lately, I’ve been soo damn busy with work these last months like I would never have imagined. I gave it some more thought, and I finally got to the point ( again I might add) where all just annoys and/or frustrates me. All the damn bickering, the childish behaviour Josh talked about (" noooo, that’s my TOY!"), the constant abuse of power (hey #-chat, #-kde ops). I thought most of us would at least try and behave like the elderish people we are (well besides the few of us, who really are children by law’s definition - hey there welp, omp, keytoaster ;-) ). But I guess that’s just been an imaginary thought I had .. * shrug*