{"id":310,"date":"2010-04-30T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T02:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/?p=310"},"modified":"2010-04-30T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T02:09:09","slug":"archlinux-chroot-on-gentoo-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/archlinux-chroot-on-gentoo-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Archlinux Chroot on Gentoo Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archlinux<\/a> is quite a popular distribution among the geekier crowd of GNU<\/a>\/Linux<\/a> users. I understand that Ubuntu<\/a> is the most popular GNU\/Linux distribution in general. It may supposedly fit the needs of the populace, but that attempt to support getting grandma on the keyboard is the reason that this distro is unattractive to us geeks ;-).
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As a Gentoo user, I value the ability to compile and install things from source. Yet I don’t want the messiness of a completely manual “distribution” such as LFS<\/a>. Yet I feel like I’m missing out of a big chunk of the GNU\/Linux experience when I have to tell people that I’ve only ever used Gentoo. Also, if one wants to make his package available from multiple distributions, he may find more success if he is able to facilitate creation of the binary packages for these other distributions.<\/p>\n

Thus, I have committed sys-apps\/pacman<\/a> into Sunrise<\/a>. I still have to get permission to commit a few fixes (hopefully by tomorrow). Also, archlinux’s take on mirrorselect<\/a>, reflector<\/a>, has been committed<\/a> but awaits review<\/a>. When these things get through, the following may actually be worth something:<\/p>\n

I have attempted to write a guide to setting up an archlinux chroot on Gentoo<\/a>. Don’t actually try the guide until about a week from now, when my stuff clears review, of course ;-). However, in the meantime, I would gladly accept:<\/p>\n