On 5/16/2017 08:16, Aaron LI wrote:
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 23:23, John Marino
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Aaron,
I don't want this to be considered some kind of release
announcement,
but I have arranged for DragonFly-CURRENT users that are very
curious to
install a functional Ravenports system. This is for preview and
evaluation (for feedback) purposes. Ravenadm is still a work in
progress, and the port count is still small[1].
I've added a Quickstart guide for DF users here:
https://github.com/jrmarino/Ravenports/wiki/quickstart-df
People that follow that procedure should immediately read:
https://github.com/jrmarino/Ravenports/wiki/standard-commands
Familarity with Synth helps, but there are some differences.
It's intended to be intuitive.
Right now, unless you create a repository, built packages are
installed
directly with "pkg add" command. Later ravenadm will have a
wrapper for
that so that creating repositories are optional.
To iterate, this is just a courtesy preview. I'm still working
on a lot
of things. Those interested in port development may wish to
read the
porters guide.[2]. (A 90% port converter is possible but
doesn't exist
yet).
Hi John,
Sorry for my late reply. I'm busying with my works...
Thank you for the quick guide, and the great work on Ravenports!
I have
already tried Ravenports & ravenadm a bit, and built several
packages.
I will keep testing it and report back on the GitHub.
I've been spending the time recently bootstrapping ravenports to Linux
and working out the kinks. It's working pretty well now. I generated a
repository using Linux Mint 18.1 (glibc ABI 2.6.32) and I was able to
use them on fedora 22 and have reports it works on Arch and Ubuntu.
I hit some snags due to my unfamiliarity with glibc (namely it's
inability to static link due to dynamic link requirements with NSS,
libdl, etc) but have that resolved now I think. It also took some time
to fix some ports to build on linux.
I added a similar quickstart guide for Linux for those interested in how
Ravenports works cross-platform:
https://github.com/jrmarino/Ravenports/wiki/quickstart-linux
John
