Hi, I've been working on getting things back up to date for a while now, with the idea of hopefully getting a CD out with a reasonable upgrade path. I've been updating the recipes for things and building binary packages as I go, which are in <http://mwh.geek.nz/files/gobo/014.10/packages/>. In particular, I have new kernel, Glibc, and X all running. Instructions for getting to it from the CD or an 014.01 system are in <https://gist.github.com/1148866>, with I think some updates in <https://gist.github.com/1360997>. There are no hierarchy or other major changes, just updated programs that avoid the difficulty of trying to upgrade things directly from the CD.
The CD is stalled on a few things, but I do have a fully-working up-to-date system, so I've made a tarball of the whole thing and uploaded it. It might be useful to people either to install from or to use as a reference. The packages in the repository are exactly what's in there, so there's nothing novel, but I might have missed something out and it could be retrieved from that. The tarball is of my entire installed system and is far from minimal - it has a full stack up as far as Firefox, and it all of the programs I have installed. If you do install it you're pretty much good to go right away, but it is 1.6GiB compressed as a consequence. There are three main things you'd need to set up to get it working on your system: firstly, there's no configured bootloader in it, so you'll need to add it to your existing Grub setup. Secondly, the fstab needs filling with the right entries for your system. Finally, you'll need to set a root password (and create a user). You can do that from an existing system with `sudo chroot /mnt/gobo passwd`, or I suppose by copying your existing passwd/shadow/group files in. There will be other things you need to set up, but those are the big ones to start with. The kernel has a fairly general configuration with most things as modules, but you might need to rebuild it still for your particular system. You should be prepared for things to go awry and perhaps hold off if you're not prepared to deal with that. The tarball is at <http://mwh.geek.nz/files/gobo/014.10/gobo-014.10-mwh-20120226.tar.bz2> (again, 1.6GiB). Everything is inside a "gobo" directory, and the contents of that should be put in the root of the filesystem you want to use it on if you plan to boot it. Thanks for getting this all together go to Diogo Lima (I hope I recall correctly), who wrote the original 014.01->current update guide that I used setting this system up, fowlmouth on #gobolinux who wrote the one linked above and some tools to help it, and Andreas Köhler who has been working through it and sent numerous reports and updated recipes. I hope this can be a foundation both to get people up and running and to get us closer to a new proper release, whether tarball or CD. -Michael _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
