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Revision as of 11:53, 11 November 2012
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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
Contents
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
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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