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Gerk
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 Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2003 9:48 pm Post subject: New 1.4 stages that need testing ASAP |
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With the imminent approach of 1.4 final being released, I have posted a
brand new set of stages that could use some good testing before they
turn into 1.4 final.
Please reports any results (good or bad) to these lists so we can get
this release the best it can be!
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/experimental/ppc/stages/
Happy Gentoo'ing everyone
Gerk
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Eyrdan
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Joined: 24 Feb 2003
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Location: St-Laurent, QC, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:47 am Post subject: |
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I figured I'd give it a try.... so I'm currently testing stage1-ppc-1.4_rc4.tbz2 ..
Still in the process, but one error message caught my attention. I did some searches to see if this had occured before but apparently no one mentioned it according to search engines. Everything went well up 'til I ran bootstrap.sh ... I noticed in the messages flowing by the following message:
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* Making device nodes (this could take a minute or so...)
* Using generic-powerpc to make device nodes...
//usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: dpkg: command not found
no support for adb on adb
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This was in the merge of sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.5.8. Looking at MAKEDEV, I see the following:
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adb)
# pick the right arch device using dpkg's knowledge
case `dpkg --print-installation-architecture` in
powerpc)
# ADB bus devices (char)
makedev adb c 56 0 $mouse
makedev adbmouse c 10 10 $mouse
;;
m68k)
# ACSI disk 2, whole device (block)
makedev adb b 28 16 $disk
for part in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
do
minor=`expr 16 + $part`
makedev adb$part b 28 $minor $disk
done
;;
*)
echo "no support for adb on $arg" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
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So apparently there is a missed depencency here, as dpkg is not installed at this stage. I know this might not be a big issue, as you can simply do "MAKEDEV adb" later, but I thought this would be worth mentioning. |
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Gerk
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 3:51 am Post subject: |
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| Right, have know about this one for some time as well. Never really took it to heart much as these are just fallback dev nodes. Gentoo uses devfs, so these nodes are simply there for fallback in case you dont' have a devfs enabled kernel (although I think gentoo does also complain loudly and tell you to tun on devfs) |
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Eyrdan
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Location: St-Laurent, QC, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 6:44 am Post subject: |
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So I finished setting up my PPC box from one of the stage1 tarballs. So far so good, and I have noticed a nice improvement in runtime (while compile is slower with gcc 3.2.x on -O3). No other issue (error or warning) arouse except what I mentioned earlier, which isn't important anyway because Gentoo uses devfs like you said. True that I don't really push it to its limits yet, this is mostly a network server, it doesn't even have XFree86 running on it (not even a screen connected, I did the full install through sshd).
Anyway, here's the info from /proc/cpuinfo to give you an idea on what it's running on in case you're keeping count of this stuff:
| Code: | cpu : 740/750
temperature : 31-33 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 267MHz
revision : 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202)
bogomips : 534.11
machine : Power Macintosh
motherboard : AAPL,PowerMac G3 MacRISC
detected as : 49 (PowerMac G3 (Silk))
pmac flags : 00000000
L2 cache : 512K unified pipelined-syncro-burst
memory : 320MB
pmac-generation : OldWorld |
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Eyrdan
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Location: St-Laurent, QC, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 7:59 am Post subject: |
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| Well the system I built up using the stage1 tarball has been up and running smoothly for almost a week now, so this stage has my blessings. |
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