[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone running gentoo on AppleTV 1st gen?

2016-03-31 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > I've come across an AppleTV 1 box and been searching the Interwebs > for gentoo related info. > http://kodi.wiki/view/Archive:HOW-TO:Install_Gentoo_and_XBMC_on_Apple_TV_1 > https://github.com/davilla/atv-bootloader Hello Mick, I just ran across these busybox ar

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone running gentoo on AppleTV 1st gen?

2016-03-31 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > I just ran across these busybox archives and thought you might > peruse the links for info. > https://git.busybox.net/ Sorry,I grabbed the wrong text:: ~jacmet/git/atvtool AppleTV utility program jacmet https://git.busybox.net/~jacmet/git/atvtool/ James

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-python sub-categories?

2016-03-31 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > > So /usr/portage/dev-python is around 1500 packages. Is it time to > > > create some new categories to reduce this size, or is it ok, in the > > > "gentoo-way" for everything /python/ to be lumped into dev-python/? > > I think you have asked this question on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone running gentoo on AppleTV 1st gen?

2016-03-31 Thread Mick
On Thursday 31 Mar 2016 17:32:25 James wrote: > James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > I just ran across these busybox archives and thought you might > > peruse the links for info. > > https://git.busybox.net/ > > Sorry,I grabbed the wrong text:: > > ~jacmet/git/atvtool AppleTV utility program jacme

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone running gentoo on AppleTV 1st gen?

2016-03-31 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > > > https://git.busybox.net/ > > ~jacmet/git/atvtool AppleTV utility program jacmet > > https://git.busybox.net/~jacmet/git/atvtool/ > Thanks James, OSMC have developed an easy to install image, which however > does not have APM enabled to handle the buggy BIOS. So

[gentoo-user] embedded (gentoo) cloud?

2016-03-31 Thread James
Well, Just as research was propelling me out of the closet, to proclaim that embedded (linux) systems are to become the backbone of the new clouds and clusters, somebody beat me to the punchline. Linaro, which is pretty much the largest collection of deep pocketed folks in the embedded (arm64) g

[gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

2016-03-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 31/03/16 09:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 31/03/2016 00:13, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: "Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.unmask/qt: =dev-qt/*-5.6*::qt" (Doesn't work with or without the "::qt".) It's the leading "*" that's wrong there, because it's not a glob or a regex; it's more a pla