On Monday 18 Apr 2016 10:28:00 I wrote: > ... Well, after another 10 days of googling and trial and error, yesterday > I arrived at a setup that works. Here are the versions I needed to > specify: > > # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords > ~dev-libs/libclc-0.1.0_pre20150305 > ~sci-misc/boinc-7.4.42 > sys-apps/nvme-cli > sys-boot/gummiboot > ~sys-devel/clang-3.6.2 > ~sys-devel/llvm-3.6.2 > sys-firmware/amdgpu-ucode > ~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6 > ~x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu-1.0.1
In fact that wasn't enough. Everything was working but one: ATLAS@home. That's a BOINC project that downloads a .vdi file with a 64-bit client for VirtualBox. To get that to work I had to use later versions of some packages, viz: $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords ~app-emulation/virtualbox-5.0.18 ~app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-5.0.18 ~app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle-5.0.18.106667 ~app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-5.0.18 ~dev-libs/libclc-0.1.0_pre20150305 ~sci-misc/boinc-7.4.42 sys-boot/gummiboot ~sys-devel/clang-3.6.2 ~sys-devel/llvm-3.6.2 sys-firmware/amdgpu-ucode ~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.5.0 ~x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu-1.1.0 > Going back to the GPU calculations, I'm quite certain that I couldn't ever > have succeeded with any other distro than Gentoo, with portage's uncanny > ability to winkle out the most obscure collisions and dependencies, so > I'm very happy to echo Alan Mackenzie's praise for it. > > Well done, our devs, and thank you! That bit stands, though. -- Rgds Peter
