GenLink to SabLink for ARM9

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Converting a GenLink Installation to an Sablink system is a tricky process becuase the gcc from the genlink is unable to compile new packages without errors so a new genlink was created with a proper gcc to compile all the required apdates to move to SabLink

Get The Genlink up to date
First you need to update your gentoo that way you can use the sablink tools

change the used BINHOST in /etc/make.conf to

PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://pkgs.sablink.nas-central.org/genlink/"

This Binhost contains the needed updates for sablink

now update the packages to the right version because the new packages are eapi masked we have to trick the install

emerge --getbinpkgonly --usepkgonly -O python:2.7

then add the add the eselct-python

emerge --getbinpkgonly --usepkgonly -O eselect-python

now select python 2.7

eselect python list eselect python set x

now force the right version of portage

emerge --getbinpkgonly --usepkgonly -O portage

now install the tools used by equo

emerge --getbinpkgonly --usepkgonly shadow

and now get the sablink tools installed

emerge --getbinpkgonly --usepkgonly equo

and get the core files for sablink

emerge --getbinpkgonly --usepkgonly -O sablink-core

now your system is prepared for sablink system

Change the CHOST and force entropy Arch
now you system is still aof type armv5tejl it needs to be changed to armv5tel (the j is standing for Arm Jazzel but no linux version is supporting it native so no need for it; arm also removed proper Jazzel support in newer processors)

change the /etc/make.conf from

CHOST="armv5tejl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi"

to

CHOST="armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi"

now force the proper arch also for the entropy package manager (if you type uname -a its still armv5tejl)

echo "armv5tel" > /etc/entropy/.arch

now your system is prepared for the migration to SabLink

Generate the the Local Entropy database and fetch the remote entropy update database
Entropy maintaines its own package database lets generate it out of the gentoo Source package database

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 equo rescue generate

and update the the remote repository

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 equo update

Force Core packages
we need to force some core packages to be installed otherwise the update will not work without errors

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 equo install --nodeps glibc

and get the deps for bash

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 equo install --nodeps ncurses LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 equo install --nodeps readline

and now get bash itself

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 equo install --nodeps bash

now that the base packages arte up to date reboot your device

reboot

Update to Sablink by replacing every package
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 equo upgrade empty

now that the system is up to date lets install new packages and remove not needed ones

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 equo install keyboard-configuration-helpers language-configuration-helpers

get some helpers installed

and remove old packages

LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 equo remove --force-system --nodeps gcc:4.2

now setup the general setings

language-setup en_US.UTF-8 system

and set the keyboard layout

keyboard-setup en_US all

if everything went accordingly you now moved your genlink installation to SabLink