On 12/6/22 14:31, Richard Brown wrote:
On 2022-12-06 13:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 12/6/22 10:53, Richard Brown wrote:
The problem isn't the 'porter-friendliness' of the distribution
It is. Otherwise I would have already added a multitude of ports to openSUSE. It's just too complicated.
I talked to multiple SUSE people with experience in that regard and they all told me that openSUSE has no easy approach for bootstrapping the distribution for a new target.
And yet you clearly didn't speak to any SUSE people who are actually involved in bootstrapping ports, because Dirk and Andreas handled it pretty smoothly for RISCV
I talked to Andreas and he told me there is no straight-forward way and it involved a lot of manual work. In fact, he admitted he used some packages from Debian for easier bootstrapping for riscv64. I also had a discussion with Marcus Schäfer on the topic and the response was a similar one.
Or of course Dominique who started this thread did it already for LegacyX86 faster during the time you've spent telling everyone how hard it is
That was not a bootstrap. A bootstrap means building a binary distribution for a new architecture completely from source. Dominique copied existing binaries over to a new repo or at least the base system to build the rest of the repo. Debian has a project called reboostrap which does a full bootstrap from source to any architecture of your choice with any baseline:
https://jenkins.debian.net/view/rebootstrap/ https://wiki.debian.org/HelmutGrohne/rebootstrap
So..how about we call this nonsense thread to a close?
That's not how mailing list discussions work :-).
Well at least your willingness to continue to demonstrate your ignorance is transparent
It would be nice if you don't answer with rudeness and insults if people express constructive criticism against openSUSE. Acting like that within a community isn't particularly helpful if you want to find new contributors. Adrian