GentooBSD

[meka]

Is this project alive or I just dreamed it? I don't remeber have I read it really or just discussed it with someone it would be nice to have portage on BSD. If it does work, when can we expect the beta release? Thanx

[GenTimJS]

people have been wanting a BSD kernel with a linux userland long before gentoo ... if only ....
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-Tim Smith

[JeffW_]

FreeBSD has ports, why not use that?
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[GenTimJS]

the freebsd ports system is ... limited...
the frequent problem I've had with it, and the reason I use gentoo, is that things in ports have little version control over stable and unstable versions the way portage handles "sparc" and "~sparc" for example... as a result, things in BSD ports often fail to compile, and there is no "easy" way to build a slightly older, but known-working, version of the port ...

also, some of the untweaked raw-source "ports" in bsd-ports (quake comes to mind) have never built reliably....

the way I see it, portage vs bsd-ports has the following advantage:

# good version control with stable vs unstable
# good ability to store "builds" (ebuilds, makefiles, whatever) for multiple versions of the same package
# emerge -pv
# puts things in the same place, compared to how bsd-ports often puts things in a different place than the system would/does if you install the same app as a binary package ... interesting conflicts arise this way...

whereas bsd-ports has the following advantages over portage:

#better selection of "niche" server applications


... keep in mind that I started my *nix experience with FreeBSD, still use it on a daily basis, and trust it more than linux for heavy server use.. but I really find linux much easier to work with on a regular basis. If its a machine I know I wont need to update more than once per year, it goes to BSD .. if its something that im going to have to maintain/upgrade/whatever weekly, then its Gentoo all the way.
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[MaxPolun]

I think gentoo/bsd is experimental right now, but being worked on. Something about a #gentoo-bsd irc channel? I don't know. look around, I think you can install it right now if you want.
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[Boinky]

Hello there,

I'm not quite sure where to post this but I installed portage on FreeBSD 5.3 and that went well. Installing a minimal FreeBSD system is very easy after having performed several stage 1 Gentoo installations .

On FreeBSD I can emerge sync and that's about it. Whenever I try to compile something I get:

!!! Digest verification Failed:
!!! /usr/portage/distfiles/freebsd-sources-5.3.tar.bz2
!!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size

I read that whenever an ebuild points to FreeBSD kernel sources (that do not exist) the ebuild should be patched to point to /usr/src/sys. But I don't know how to do that .

Cheers,

Robert
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