What I’ve Been Up To – New site, etc.
Here’s what I’ve been up to:
http://www.funtoo.org has been redesigned. It now has more of a portal design to get you to the latest Funtoo, Funtoo+OpenVZ and Gentoo builds. I hope you like it :)
In the Funtoo Portage tree, I’ve added a new build of OpenRC, a new udev ebuild (133 with some OpenRC-compatibility and other fixes), and I’m keeping Portage 2.2_rc* unmasked. The Gentoo Portage tree has masked 2.2_rc* to try to get more testing of the upcoming 2.1* release, which is fine, but we’re going to stick with the development branch.
Work is ongoing with Metro. The git version (pre-1.2) now has a few new targets: stage3-quick and stage3-freshen. In the past, Metro would build a new stage3 by going through these steps:
seed stage3->stage1->stage2->stage3
“stage3-quick” builds a new stage3 as follows:
seed stage3->stage3
It uses ROOT=/tmp/stage3root and emerge system to make this happen.
“stage3-freshen” is even faster, and builds a new stage3 as follows:
seed stage3->stage3
The difference here is that the “stage3-freshen” target uses the seed stage3 in-place and runs an emerge –u –deep system and emerge –u –deep <extrapackages>. This is a nice way to freshen slightly old stage3’s without doing a full rebuild.
So there you have it. I hope you enjoy the new site. I sure do, since it updates itself automatically, and it’s fun for me to look at every morning :)
11 comments:
Thanks very much for this redesign. I haven't really understood what the Funtoo project consists of until now, but this makes it very clear. It looks like a very flexible, powerful model for development.
It looks like the future of Gentoo is in good hands -- everybody's hands.
My current Gentoo install is running stable for over a year now. But the next time I have to intall I'm going to grab a Funtoo stage!
Keep up to good work!
I like your new logo :)
Just curious, how did you make it?
Hi Daniel
Is there support for PPC64 builds I've been playing with Gentoo on my PS3 again but it's sooo sloooow
Would be nice to get metro to create some snapshots on my AMD64 box
Good work btw
Mike
I miss the articles section :(
@Juan: For now, you can still get to the articles from the index of http://funtoo.org/en/articles/linux/
I like the new site, though there is something missing : a forum and a wiki :). It might me useful, for those wishing it, to write about their experiences using funtoo, and exchange ideas, or ask for help.
How'you'doin?
daniel,
do you have any plan for integrating paludis within funtoo and eventually adding a git-based paludis tree to funtoo ?
No, I have no plans to do that. I am trying to support the continued development of Portage.
thanks for the stage3 daniel, it did the job perfect. and also for funtoo/git. I went back to regular portage though (eix love).
oh and for those that might not read the whole bit about the funtoo/git tree (ahmmm)a link to InstallingGit in the Quick Howto would be nice.
:)
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