Rob Holland of Inverse Path (some may know him as tigger^ the ex Gentoo dev) had some free Sun SPARCs going, so I snagged a U5! Well, I’ve had it for some time now, but his Mum forgot to ship the keyboard. So it’s been gathering dust in my room for months until yesterday they keyboard arrived. And it booted and stayed up! Yay! :DThe plan was to put Gentoo/Linux on it, mainly so I could fix Gentoo bug #104067.
I hate the stuff with a vengance. Why spammers feel the need to botspam comments to this lowly site linking to casinos, porn and cheap drugs is beyond me. Well, I get bored of deleting 30+ spam comments each day, so I’ve put a new spamming filter onto my site. Hopefully this one works better than the captcha which seems to have been bypassed now :(So I’ve removed that captcha as it’s now useless really.
OK, so after much head banging with installed FreeBSD on my laptop because FreeBSD won’t boot from an extended partition, unlike Linux I finally have this beastie installed.I spent a portion of the weekend hacking on baselayout and now have it booting and rebooting without error which is very nice indeed :) Once I get my wireless rt2500 card working on it, which requires I get the pcmcia bit working first then I’ll be happy putting that into portage- package.
OK, it’s taken longer than I expected, but I’ve finally come up with a nice patch for bug #46897. 8)We now allow multiple init scripts to provide “foo”. Which init script is depended on is based on the following criteria- any started, in your runlevel, first in alphabetical order.Now I just have to get baselayout working on FreeBSD and I think we’re ready for another baselayout in ~ARCH- 1.13 :jawdrop:
Heh, long time no blog :(Anyways, I have been busy what with the recent stabilisation of baselayout-1.12. We think all regressions have been fixed, with a few very minor ones with patches in bugzilla. I’ve got a small one that only one person has reported which I’ll try to fix before the next release in the 1.12 range.So what’s coming up in baselayout-1.13 I hear you say? Well, here’s a quick list * Buffered e* output.
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