Gentoo

Gentoo recently drops old release schedule and focus on new Weekly or Monthly automatic release build.

And more, There is (may be) no more Gentoo Catalyst for release build for the Gentoo, and that means, Catalyst project is gone.

Because of new release model and attempt of Daniel Robbins (former Gentoo leader and founder), he decides to bring Gentoo and his own Gentoo Portage Overlay project called Funtoo to the next steps. By providing something that let people build distribution and customization based on Gentoo and Funtoo more easier and have larger user based. Daniel have create new automatic build mechanism called Metro (Wtih the release 1.1 currently released).

Gentoo developer now working closely with Dainel to get this thing working for gentoo release as well, but not much activity on this. Gentoo councils now seems to focus on based system (such as EAPI, Baselayout) than the release engineering or building things.

Let's try Funtoo. Just For Fun.

P.S. You should to watch videos on Daniel's blog. Much fun !

Posted by SF-Alpha

I found this bug when trying building stage4 image for my EeePC from my AMD64 PC.

Seems like genkenrel not pass valid ARCH on make menuconfig (this bug #247246)

I reported this for a while and nobody seems to work on it. What those bug wranglers doing guys.

Although I can get fixed myself. I think this is major bugs that could by fixes soon.

BTW: I got Gnome+XFCE stage4 for my EeePC (with compiz-fusion optionally enabled).

Posted by SF-Alpha

So I grab some patch from Gentoo bugzilla and it works. But ... It really does have some problem because (some bad) design of Portage and also Gentoo Catalyst itself. I found that catalyst do good on cross compile and make anything consistent. But portage cannot solve circular dependencies on building stage4, and more, it does not update use flags on stage3 packages (@system) for stage4

This is another bug that I go to fix it myself by adding only --deep --newuse to the emerge command in build stage4 target script.

Continue reading "Gentoo Catalyst is way too complex (and buggy)"

Posted by SF-Alpha

Again for my EeePC 901. eeepc-acpi ebuild. In fact, there is nothing, just a skeleton for linux_mod eclass.

But hey.... 2.6.27 does not need it.

Posted by SF-Alpha

For EeePC 901 / EeePC 1000 Users and others.

I have done Gentoo ebuild for Ralink RT2860 Linux Wireless Driver (net-wireless/ralink-rt2860-1.8.0.0), you can grab my ebuild here. This may need firmware from Ralink to work.

Note: I have updated from 1.8.0.0 to 1.8.0.0-r1, Enable WPA Supplicant support by default and add networkmanager use flags to support linux wext and NetworkManager

This is official Ralink's GPL drivers.

For the drivers of official kernel tree (RT2x00), currently rt2x00 project does not release any drivers for RT2860 at all (It done some in git, but not consider usable because it incomplete). I think it will be out for test around 2.6.30. Drivers from rt2x00 are based on mac80211 stack and much better in linux userland support.

If you have RT61, RT73, RT24xx and RT25xx, suggested  to use rt2x00 drivers from offical source tree, available from 2.6.24 and later.

Posted by SF-Alpha

I will start moving Gentoo mirrors from mirrors.64hosting.com. In fact, Currently, we using backup server for Gentoo mirrors because our primary mirror server was down because hardware failure a month ago and I did not replaced it yet.

Continue reading "Transfer Gentoo Mirror to Gentoo.in.th"

Posted by SF-Alpha