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mohamed_hagag n00b
Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 56
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:15 am Post subject: BinToo-2007.1 Released |
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From my believe in gentoo and as a gift to its community i'm announcing the first real release of a Binary Gentoo based and 100% compatible Distribution.
BinToo "Binary Gentoo" has been created to:
- make gentoo available on old hardware that may handle gentoo installation in many days just in few hours.
- make gentoo installation easier "at least in comparison to the normal installation method".
- make gentoo distributable without the need for high speed internet connections as CDs/DVDs.
- provide a GRP repository for the gentoo community - for now contains only 2200+ packages.
- spread the principle of FLOSS, Linux and Gentoo in the Middle-East.
- approve that gentoo is the most easy and General purpose Distro.
- enhance portage binary packages support by implementing the needed functions to distribute GRPs on multiple CDs/DVDs and other media types (ToDo) .
BinToo is being developed by me [[ alone ]] so please if u can help contact me <mohamedhagag1981 at gmail dot com>.
BinToo available for download by normal http/ftp & Bittorrent methods @ :
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/bintoo/2007.1/
ftp://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/bintoo/2007.1/
and today i started the GRPs upload process to :
http://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/bintoo/2007.1/packages/
you can use them with your current gentoo installation if you wish.
BinToo last version: 2007.1 (year.month of release)
BinToo-2007.1 Included packages:
glibc-2.5
gcc-4.1.1-r1
baselayout-1.2.16
xorg-x11-7.1
gnome-2.16.0-r1
kde-meta-3.5.5
openoffice-2.0.4
koffice-1.6
mozilla-firefox-2.0
mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.8
for full packages list :
http://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/bintoo/2007.1/packages.lst
for more Info. Please visit http://bintoo.sf.net |
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Conan Guru
Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 360
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:36 am Post subject: |
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how do you deal with the use flag problem?
Additionally, what use flags are you building programs with. |
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mohamed_hagag n00b
Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 56
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:54 am Post subject: |
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normally i built it with a general common use flags set at make.conf , these are the use flags in the make.conf :
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USE="-* nvidia fgrlx aiglx dmx cursors gdm icons libsamplerate ares metalink bittorrent ace cpio compress 3dfx 3dnow 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi activefilter ada addbookmarks alias alsa amr amuled aol apache2 apm artworkextra asf async atk atm audacious automount autoreplace avahi avi bash-completion batch bcp beagle berkdb bidi big-tables bitmap-fonts bjam blender-game bluetooth bonobo boost browserplugin buttons bzip2 cairo calendar caps cardbus cdb cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi chardet chm cjk clamav clanVoice cli command-args connectionstatus contactnotes corba cpudetection crypt cscope ctrlmenu ctype cups curl curlwrappers dar32 db dba dbm dbus dga dhcp dio directfb djvu dlloader dlz dmi dnd dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi ecc edl eds effects elf elibc_glibc emacs emboss encode enigmail epson esd ethereal etwin exif expat extraengine fam fastcgi fat fax fbcon fbdev ffmpeg firefox flac flash flatfile font-server fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fpx freetts freewnn ftp fuse gadu gaim gcj gd gdbm geoip ggi gif gimp gimpprint glut gmp gnokii gnome gnomecanvas gnomedb gnustep gnutls gpgme gphoto2 gpm gps graphviz groupwise gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile gvim h323 hal hddtemp hfs highlight history howl i8x0 iconv icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib2 inifile inkjar innodb iodbc ipalias ipv6 irc irda irmc isdnlog ithreads jabber jack java java-external javascript jfs jingle jikes joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos kernel_linux kqemu krb4 l7filter ladspa lcms ldap leim libcaca libclamav libg++ libgda libwww lirc live lm_sensors logitech-mouse logrotate lua lzo mad madwifi mailwrapper matroska mbrola md5sum mdb memlimit mhash mikmod mime ming mjpeg mmap mmx mng mod modplug mono motif mozdevelop mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg123 mplayer mppe-mppc msn mule multipath musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli nagios-dns nagios-game nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh nas nautilus ncurses ndiswraper netmeeting network nfs ngui nis nls nntp noamazon nowlistening nptl nptlonly nsplugin nspr ntfs objc odbc ofx ogg oggvorbis on-the-fly-crypt openal openexr opengl oss pam pam_console pango panel-plugin pascal pcmcia pcntl pcre pda pdf pdflib perl php pic povray plib plugin plx png pnp pop pop3 portaudio posix postgres ppds pppd prelude print psyco pthreads pyste python qemu-fast qmail qt qt3 qt4 quicktime quota quotas radiotap radius rar rdesktop readline real reflection reiser4 reiserfs rplay rpm rrdcgi rtc ruby samba sametime sasl scanner scim screen sdk sdl seamonkey sensord serial server session sguil shout silc silverxp simplexml skey skins slang slp smartcard smime smp sms smux sndfile snmp snortsam soap sockets socks5 softmmu softquota sox spamassassin speex spell spl spreadsheet sql sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl statistics stencil-buffer stream stroke subversion svg svga swat sysfs syslog syslog-ng szip tcl tcltk tcpd tetex texteffect theora threads threadsonly thumbnail thunar-vfs tidy tiff timidity tk tokenizer toolbar tools translator truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev underscores unicode ups urandom usb userland_GNU userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts vim-pager virus-scan visualization vlm vnc vorbis wddx webpresence wifi win32codecs winbind winpopup wma wma123 wmf wv wxwindows x11vnc x86 xcomposite xfs xine xinerama xinetd xml xml2 xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xorg xosd xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xsl xvid yahoo zeroconf zip zlib"
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there're some use flags that installs non-free software like win32codecs but these software not included on the Media, you can install them simply as normal gentoo installation. |
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Priyantha Bleeker n00b
Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 74 Location: Amsterdam
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:54 am Post subject: |
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Do you need people to build packages for your GRP repo ?
Or are you planning to do that all on your own ? _________________ Greetings, Priyantha Bleeker |
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mohamed_hagag n00b
Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 56
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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sure i do, i'm doing all the stuff on my PIII / 1.2G / 256k + 256M PC so it's really a very good idea to have some contributions specially on packaging.
for any one need to contribute packages, i'll write soon some Info. about how to do and what's the rules you should follow in this process. |
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Priyantha Bleeker n00b
Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 74 Location: Amsterdam
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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mohamed_hagag wrote: | sure i do, i'm doing all the stuff on my PIII / 1.2G / 256k + 256M PC so it's really a very good idea to have some contributions specially on packaging.
for any one need to contribute packages, i'll write soon some Info. about how to do and what's the rules you should follow in this process. |
All right
I have here three pc's standing with power enough to help. _________________ Greetings, Priyantha Bleeker |
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baigsabeeh Guru
Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 520 Location: North Brunswick, NJ
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:09 am Post subject: |
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I can pitch in too. _________________ BSD > SysV > Linux
BSD FTW! |
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mohamed_hagag n00b
Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 56
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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really i'm so happy that you're interseted , i'll prepare a simple sdk or stage4/5/6 system that will be available to all the interested people to use in building the GRPs and i'll post here when i'm finish .
i think this will be used to build the next release .
if any one here interested to build this stage4 system with the kernel and / or just have an advice on the build optimization ...etc, please send these info. here specially the USE flags issues .
i'm trying now to build the system with the minimal USEs and get the same functionality. |
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xanium4332 n00b
Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 33
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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I was thinking of doing the same thing, however I couldn't work out a decent way of handling the dependencies.
How do you handle things which are dynamically linked to one another, as emerge doesn't handle reverse dependencies? If a library goes through an ABI (or other major) change, one normally runs revdep-rebuild to fix any problems (which is fine when compiling from source), but if someone uses your binary repos. and only updates a couple of programs (not a complete world update), then they might get stuck with programs compiled against incorrect libs.
The above is just how I understand it, please correct me if I'm wrong. Just wondering / making you aware of any problems (assuming my info is correct )
I'd love to help out with the compiling and etc.. as well
So, count me in too! |
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mohamed_hagag n00b
Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 56
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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there's always some work to do manually but if you do the following steps in order you won't face a lot of problems that need hand work:
0- set USE flags and CHOST,CFLAGS ...etc.
1- update portage & build/install the kernel.
2- bootstrap.
3- emerge -e system.
4- emerge other packages.
during the steps from 1 to 4 you shouldn't change any USE flags nor CHOST,CFLAGS to get a real stable system.
there's many other things that affecting the resulting system but the previous mentioned are the most important ones. |
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notanatheist n00b
Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 16
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:13 am Post subject: |
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You should add more detail to the install process. I was not happy with it and immediately switched to regular Gentoo before finishing the install. I even chose "expert" install option. Once you specify the / directory it just wipes it and begins the install. I already have seperate /home, /boot, and other partitions that I typically setup in /etc/fstab.
I do like the idea of an all binary gentoo distro though. Certainly a possible time saver. |
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TheJoker89 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 132
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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if you need more help with compiling, im here for you:
thejoker89@gmail.com
just got my machine working on gentoo without many probs
2x 3ghz Intel Pentium D 830 (no overclocking)
1024 MB RAM DDR2
enough space to compile many things and make packages of them _________________ gib gates keine chance |
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