[gobolinux-users] gobolinux on x86_64

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 10/3/07, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
> Hisham Muhammad wrote:
> > My answer is "go, try, but I recommend getting some more experience
> > with LFS and GoboLinux first." It's worth noting that when we did what
> > became GoboLinux 001 I had already been using an 80%-or-so converted
> > system so I already knew many of the tricks for "Gobo-ifying" packages
> > (fortunately those tricks are documented as Compile recipes nowadays).
> > Learning about Compile (even if running it with Rootless GoboLinux
> > inside another distribution) would help the process a lot as well.
> >
> > So, in short, it's doable, but you'll save a lot of work if you spend
> > some time learning all those bits and pieces first.
>
> I feel the same way from my experience.  BTW, is it possible to run
> Bootstrap from within Rootless (on a base non-Gobo system)?  And... back
> when I was on PowerPC, I wasn't entirely successful with Rootless.
> (possibly because of inexperience with Gobo.)

Almost. I've some pending patches (not very well tested) to do exactly
that. I'm slowly doing a new PPC port from scratch using Bootstrap on
Mac OS X. As soon as I get good results I'll let you know.

-- 
Lucas
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