Anybody tried portage on Tiger yet?

arnaudsj · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 34

Hi,

With Tiger a few days away from being released (actually some lucky ones have reported that they already received their copy in the mail, but some mistake of MacMall and others

. I wondered if anybody had a chance to test and see what Portage does on this new version. I recon that the python version that ships with Tiger is 2.3.5, and that gcc defaults to 4.0 (with 3.3 still avail as well). Also, I am not sure the same portage profile can be used for Tiger....

Any brave(&lucky) soul out there?

Thanks!

CrimsonScythe · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:03 am Post subject:

I can't say that I've had too much luck so far. Maybe I should narrow down that statement a little: I haven't had too much luck yet, using GCC 4.0. I had to switch the default GCC in order to manage to install some programs. Maybe I'm just unlucky since I've not reinstalled portage, but just relinked the make.profile file.

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sapo_selo · n00b Joined: 06 Feb 2005 Posts: 26 Location: Portugal

for now i haven't been lucky with the gentoo on tiger... i get a lot of erros and can't do nothing, maybe it's needed another installer for tiger... :cry:

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watersb · Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject:

I used Gentoo on Tiger all throughout the beta cycle for Tiger...

There are some things which require some work, but in general I can get things to build.

Not sure that's a specific answer, but yeah, it basically works for me.

I have a really great co-worker who has built a lot of packages for Tiger via DarwinPorts, so I spent today trying to learn that system. After becoming proficient in Gentoo portage, it is a bit painful to use something else!

rm · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 87

I just installed portage on tiger on a new machine. Had to mask out sys-libs/readline in package.mask before "emerge system" would work.
I've been using gentoo x86 for over a year now as my only system. And it's hands down the best software management system there is, I do not use it because it's source based, that just a bonus, a really nice one though.
On tiger, compiling stuff, mmm ... not so lucky.

But what strikes me most is that (almost) everything is masked.

One question, what architecture should I use in package.keywords,
should it be:

BennyP · Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 7:06 pm Post subject:

you need to use ppc-macos
typically it goes like this

elguapo · n00b Joined: 15 May 2005 Posts: 1