[Wlug] It boots. Now what?

[Jamie Guinan]

On Wed, 23 May 2007, ken jones wrote:

> I got HAPPYMEAL to work.  My sparc64 is on the WEB!
> Here is result of ls -lad /etc/make.profile
> ----------snip----------
> kjones-sun2 ~ # ls -lad /etc/make.profile
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 May 17 12:45 /etc/make.profile -> 
> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.1
> -----------end snip---------
> Here is result of emerge xorg-x11:  How do I install from the tar.bz 
> file?  What is gentoo's equivalent of Red Hat's rpm?

That's what gentoo's portage system (via the "emerge" command) does 
for you - downloads the tarballs, builds, installs, and keeps a record 
of what's installed under /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package>/ .  Well,
when it works.  :)
  
Look at /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/*.ebuild, its fairly easy to 
get the gist of it if you know shell syntax.

Did you do "emerge --sync" like some others suggested?

I see a few libpng versions available, up to 1.2.16,

$ ls /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/*.ebuild
/usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.2.14-r1.ebuild
/usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.2.14.ebuild
/usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.2.15.ebuild
/usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.2.16.ebuild

> --------------snip-------------
> Lastly, how do you know that HAPPYMEAL is in the sun-hme module?  Where 
> is the information indicating the functionality contained in each module?

In the "make menuconfig" [Help] items.  Also in menuconfig, you can 
search all the help text by typing "/" and entering some text.  

Generally, once you have your system configured to your satisfaction, 
you keep a copy of the kernel .config, and use that the next time you 
upgrade the kernel by copying it to the new kernel tree and doing 
"make oldconfig".

-Jamie