Re: [bug-gsrc] How to bootstrap a gsrc system

[Luke Shumaker]

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 14:38 +0000, Brian Gough wrote:
> At Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:06:28 -0800 (PST),
> Mike Gran wrote:
> > I like the idea of gsrc, but, I'm a little confused as to how
> > one would create a running, self-hosted system.
> > 
> > I could take an existing distro, build the gsrc tree in
> > prefix=/usr/local', and then delete my distro's programs,
> > and then use the programs in prefix=/usr/local to 
> > rebuild the tree in prefix=/usr.  Or something like that.
> 
> Hi Mike.  I haven't thought about building a complete system.  I just
> use GSRC to get the latest GNU packages installed under /gnu on my
> existing system.  

I was fiddling with getting GSRC to build a complete system for a while,
but got pulled away by other projects before I really got anywhere.

LNX-BBC uses GAR (which GSRC is based on) to build a complete system; if
you're interested, you may want to look at how it works.
<http://www.lnx-bbc.com>

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