On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:04:40PM -0500, Matt Turner wrote: > > Out of interest... did you get around to those n32 stages at all? I'd > > like to get some of my old SGI kit up and going, some of them will need > > a complete reinstall... so I may as well do that using n32 from the > > outset. > > > > My O2 can remain o32 for now since it was the one still standing after > > all this time. The others, the userland is broken/stale to the point of > > uselessness. > > I tried again last week to make n32 stages, but have had a terrible > time with catalyst. > > The main problem I run into is that I can't get catalyst to > acknowledge any package.keywords files (which as I understand might be > by design), so I'm unable to put together a stage from the versions > I'd like to stabilize. Are your recent o32 stages straight-up ~mips? > Can you post your spec files somewhere?
I'll go one better and post the script I use to generate the spec files. You place this in your catalyst directory and call it. It'll perform the stage1 -> stage 2 -> stage 3 builds automatically from there. It should work for n32 as well... in fact I'm pretty sure I have used it once for n32. If you have a look at the top of the file, you'll see the syntax easily enough. And to those seasoned sh programmers, yes... it can be greatly improved -- there are things I've learned about sh that I didn't know at the time. My o32 stages are straight ~mips... however I did adjust the snapshot's package.mask to disable building of perl-5.12 for this release as I had some quirky issues with it in the seed stage... the biggest issue at the time was gcc-4.4.4 not being built correctly by gcc-4.1.1... I could address Perl later. (In fact, I will in the next release.) Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
dostages.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
