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
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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