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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Is gentoo only i386?
From:       mirian () cosmic ! com (Mirian Crzig Lennox)
Date:       2002-01-29 18:29:24
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:44:49 -0600 (CST), Mike Acord <knowfear@knowfear.net> wrote:
>I thought I remember somewhere that Gentoo is currently only working on
>i386 compatible computers, is this true?

I hope not... I want to run it on my PPC iBook!

>If so, I think it would be nice to remove all the arch-specific code
>for non-i386 from the kernel source (it would make the kernel source
>download must faster).

As a matter of practice, gentoo is following the "pristine source"
philosophy (from FreeBSD ports and others), which means that all
downstream modification of vendor packages are done with patches, never
in the source tarball itself (so that you can get a source package from
anywhere, and as long as the MD5 matches, you're golden).

However, if you want to maintain your own kernel source w/o downloading
non-i386 code, it's easy... just take any linux-2.4.x.tar.{gz,bz2} you
have, remove the i386 code, and then track the official source by
applying patches from ftp.xx.kernel.org (using the -t or -f option to
patch to make it skip files that can't be found).  Then just put those
tarballs into your /usr/portage/distfiles directory and change the MD5
in your local .ebuild file.

Back when my net connection was a 28.8K wet string, that's how I used to
stay current on linux kernels.  More work, but beats hours-long
downloads.

--Mirian


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