From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Mar 16 05:40:37 2010 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: [MiNT] Gentoo/FreeMiNT "preview" release From: Alan Hourihane To: mint Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:37:35 +0000 Message-Id: <1268732255.19683.7369.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Hi folks, Sorry for the delay (yet again), but I've finally uploaded a snapshot. It's a tarball which should be classed as a "preview". There's a couple of issues with this "preview" release that I'm working on sorting out over the next few weeks, but I didn't want to keep delaying and preferred to get something out now for people to poke at, provide feedback, questions etc. If you visit http://gentoo.atariforge.org there's a link for the tarball. Just ensure you have a clean filesystem (probably best via easymint install and mke2fs on the volume). Then unpack. Ensure your mint.cnf creates the correct symlinks (with the sln command) to the directories created. And then you can do INIT=/bin/bash in the mint.cnf too. At the moment, if you try to update a package it will compile from source. I need to work out what's wrong to pull down the binaries from the page I've been working on to avoid that. This is compiled for 68000 so should work on all machines, albeit with enough memory. Basic 4MB ST's might struggle. I've been running this on my TT and Falcon for quite some time now. You can run "emerge --sync" to pull down the latest portage tree, but if there's a portage update, don't install it as portage will break. There's a mintlib bug I need to fix to sort this out. All the normal "emerge" commands are available (or should be), but remember things will build from source until I can work out what's missing for binary updating from the page I've setup. Any questions feel free, and enjoy. Alan.