I've got Portage running on Tiger.2 on a PowerBook G3 (Lombard) right
now, and it's working fine. But there are a few questions I'd like
to have answered.
1. Are we supposed to set USE flags for this platform? The official
guide didn't mention it, but I noticed some packages still had USE
options (saw this with emerge -v), so I've used some both in my
make.conf and at the command line. Is this OK?
2. There are a lot of masked packages, but I've noticed that stuff
is either masked with ~ppc or missing, and nothing with ~ppc-macos.
Is this a bug in Portage, or should I be using ~ppc to install masked
packages?
3. Come to think of it, is there a way to find out why something is
masked?
4. CURL sucks. If the server returns a 404, that is saved into the
file, which spells disaster for 125 MB downloads over dial-up
(NeoOffice/J, not Gentoo but I used CURL). I emerged wget (USE="ipv6
ssl"); what are the commands needed in make.conf to use wget instead
of CURL?
5. The CFLAG march doesn't seem to work on PPC. I have no problem
using mcpu instead, but what's the reason for gcc not marching on PPC?
6. Is there a gentoo-ppc-macos-user list, or is this it? (I
probably should have asked this one first!)
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Colin
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now, and it's working fine. But there are a few questions I'd like
to have answered.
1. Are we supposed to set USE flags for this platform? The official
guide didn't mention it, but I noticed some packages still had USE
options (saw this with emerge -v), so I've used some both in my
make.conf and at the command line. Is this OK?
2. There are a lot of masked packages, but I've noticed that stuff
is either masked with ~ppc or missing, and nothing with ~ppc-macos.
Is this a bug in Portage, or should I be using ~ppc to install masked
packages?
3. Come to think of it, is there a way to find out why something is
masked?
4. CURL sucks. If the server returns a 404, that is saved into the
file, which spells disaster for 125 MB downloads over dial-up
(NeoOffice/J, not Gentoo but I used CURL). I emerged wget (USE="ipv6
ssl"); what are the commands needed in make.conf to use wget instead
of CURL?
5. The CFLAG march doesn't seem to work on PPC. I have no problem
using mcpu instead, but what's the reason for gcc not marching on PPC?
6. Is there a gentoo-ppc-macos-user list, or is this it? (I
probably should have asked this one first!)
--
Colin
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