Re: 64 bits?

"Lucas C. Villa Real" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
Message-ID <CAAvzgtZKaCDSftAvg2kRuieP0Wu=cRgCwUYHatPv1ZO=0pBxsw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Sergio Tortosa Benedito <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure this may has been asked already, but I'm too lazy to
> search by myself :P, anyway the mail its quite "empty" so I don't expect
> this to be a huge annoyance.
> So 64 bits? Why there's not an ISO? I know there might be a reason
> (otherwise why not make the ISO?), though I dont know which one.
>

The reason remains the same as in other releases: we do not have enough
manpower to do stuff. While we do have the best of the intentions, other
stuff keep us busy.


> A bit unrelated but you said developmente would start at january, truth be
> told I would like to try help this project as it holds lots of promise
> (specially now with the advent of bundles), (now I only expect not to quit
> from this project too soon :| ).
>

Just a few weeks ago Hisham and I exchanged a few words about scheduling
some time to prepare a 64-bit release, but neither of us could get it
started. From my side, I'm busy as hell with a few deadlines and cannot
really commit to more deadlines, especially when it comes to a hobby
project.

If you want to help, what really needs to be done is to get the patches
that I wrote for ALFS (Automated Linux From Scratch) and apply them to the
most recent snapshot of that code. Ideally, we should submit the code to
the ALFS project so that we don't have to keep maintaining the patchset
ourselves. Once the codebase is patched, we can look into building the base
packages. The code and patches are hosted here:

    http://svn.gobolinux.org/tools/trunk/GoboALFS

If you are willing to try it, I suggest you edit the GoboALFS script and
add a "exit 0" call to line 210. That will let you test the ALFS part of
the script, which basically builds the list of base packages from Linux
From Scratch using instructions from the LFS book.

Again, I still plan on working on this, but this is not a high priority for
me. Last time I estimated roughly 3-4 weeks of work and it took me more
than 5 months to get it done.

Thanks,
Lucas

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