[Fwd: Gentoo install]

[Fwd: Gentoo install]

[Adrian McMenamin]

apologies sent this to the SF list by mistake. I know this isn't a
kernel issue but i suspect the real knowledge of how to do this is
here...

Is there a guide anywhere to how I can install gentoo on my Dreamcast?

I have got a stage 3 tarball and installed the latest portage snapshot,
but it seems like madness to me to try to compile packages natively and
I have read fragmentary emails suggesting that I can get some sort of
x-compile system up and running.

But I cannot find anything coherent that explains how to do it? Any
clues/experience?

Re: [Fwd: Gentoo install]

[Harley Laue]

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Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> apologies sent this to the SF list by mistake. I know this isn't a
> kernel issue but i suspect the real knowledge of how to do this is
> here...
> 
> Is there a guide anywhere to how I can install gentoo on my Dreamcast?
> 
> I have got a stage 3 tarball and installed the latest portage snapshot,
> but it seems like madness to me to try to compile packages natively and
> I have read fragmentary emails suggesting that I can get some sort of
> x-compile system up and running.
> 
> But I cannot find anything coherent that explains how to do it? Any
> clues/experience?

It's been awhile since I played with this specifically. There were
several different ways. One is explained
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/cross-development.xml
Another was using Overlays to do basically the same thing. You can use
this to build programs that are easy to put into the NFS (one of the
easier setups IMO)

The other option would be to setup a Gentoo cross compiler to use with
distcc then to compile things from the Dreamcast but offloading the
actual compiling to another system. When I did this I didn't have the
Dreamcast doing any compiling but rather offloading all compiling to my
desktop.

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Re: [Fwd: Gentoo install]

[Paul Mundt]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:27:04PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> apologies sent this to the SF list by mistake. I know this isn't a
> kernel issue but i suspect the real knowledge of how to do this is
> here...
> 
> Is there a guide anywhere to how I can install gentoo on my Dreamcast?
> 
> I have got a stage 3 tarball and installed the latest portage snapshot,
> but it seems like madness to me to try to compile packages natively and
> I have read fragmentary emails suggesting that I can get some sort of
> x-compile system up and running.
> 
> But I cannot find anything coherent that explains how to do it? Any
> clues/experience?
> 
What you are probably going to end up having to do is stick with binary
distributions of the packages anyways. While you can toss everything over
the fence to a cross-compiler on a slightly less neutered host, you are
still going to run in to a world of pain on the target side with things
like updating the portage cache.

Re: [Fwd: Gentoo install]

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Tue, July 15, 2008 10:08 am, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:27:04PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>>
>> Is there a guide anywhere to how I can install gentoo on my Dreamcast?
>>
> What you are probably going to end up having to do is stick with binary
> distributions of the packages anyways. While you can toss everything over
> the fence to a cross-compiler on a slightly less neutered host, you are
> still going to run in to a world of pain on the target side with things
> like updating the portage cache.

I am right in thinking, though, aren't I, that there is no automatic way
of pulling in binary packages?

Re: [Fwd: Gentoo install]

[Manuel Lauss]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:42:36AM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Tue, July 15, 2008 10:08 am, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:27:04PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there a guide anywhere to how I can install gentoo on my Dreamcast?
> >>
> > What you are probably going to end up having to do is stick with binary
> > distributions of the packages anyways. While you can toss everything over
> > the fence to a cross-compiler on a slightly less neutered host, you are
> > still going to run in to a world of pain on the target side with things
> > like updating the portage cache.
> 
> I am right in thinking, though, aren't I, that there is no automatic way
> of pulling in binary packages?

there's "emerge -K <pkg>" provided you have a repository.

-- 
 Manuel Lauss