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


!!!! Don't do an equo upgrade it will destroy your system we have to force specific packages first !!!!


now force the install of the core packages

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