Use GentooOSX to fetch Gentoo-ppc stuff

[servobf]

I've got this idea, and think it is probably possible, but wanted to know if anyone has actually done it before.

Suppose I've got Gentoo and OSX installed to dual boot and Gentoo is installed on an ext3 partition. I'd use ExtFSManager [1] to mount the Gentoo partition while in OSX. (Here comes the tricky part?) I'd then configure Gentoo-OSX to fetch the ppc sources so that 'emerge -f fluxbox' would grab the sources and place them in the right place on the Gentoo disk. I would then reboot into Gentoo and type 'emerge fluxbox' where it would see that fluxbox was already downloaded and just build it.

Sound possible? How complicated?

Here's why it'd be usefull for me and probably others: I have only wireless internet access most of the time. I could have wired access for a while to do the initial install (or use a Universal CD), but beyond that it's a bit sketchy.

Thanks a ton!

Michael Moore

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ -- I use it and it works great on OSX 10.3

[pindar]

Yeah, that should be possible. I had made /usr/portage a symlink beteen gentoo and OS X for a while. The problem is that extfsmanager doesn't work with 10.4 any more. Actually, the sources are no different for ppc and macos-ppc, it's just the configuration and compilation that differ. Good luck!

[servobf]

OK. This seems to be working quite well, and may help others who don't have wired access all the time to update their system.

I installed gentoo and the ext3 OSX driver, and made symlinks from the gentoo install of these places to OSX.

/etc/portage
/var/db/pkg
/var/lib/portage
/usr/lib/portage
/usr/portage
/var/log/emerge.log
/etc/make.conf
/etc/make.globals
/etc/make.profile

When I run 'emerge -f whatever' it gets the things I want to install for gentoo ppc. I reboot, and run 'emerge whatever' and it builds (of course).

Thanks,

Michael