BinToo-2007.1 Released

mohamed_hagag · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 56

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

Conan · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 360

how do you deal with the use flag problem?

Additionally, what use flags are you building programs with.

mohamed_hagag · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 56

normally i built it with a general common use flags set at make.conf , these are the use flags in the make.conf :

Priyantha Bleeker · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 74 Location: Amsterdam

Do you need people to build packages for your GRP repo ?
Or are you planning to do that all on your own ?
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mohamed_hagag · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 56

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.

Priyantha Bleeker · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 74 Location: Amsterdam

baigsabeeh · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:09 am Post subject:

I can pitch in too.
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mohamed_hagag · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 56

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

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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.

xanium4332 · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 33

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!

mohamed_hagag · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 56

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.

notanatheist · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 16

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.

TheJoker89 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 132

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

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