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[Aditya S. <sar...@gm...>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:31:05AM +0530, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> There is no objectives message of this project yet, so we should formulate the
> objectives by collaborating on this list :) .
> 
> Anyways, this message is related to how I bootstrapped the basic pacman setup
> on my box. The basic dependencies required for bootstrapping are:
> 
> * GNU bash
> * fakeroot
> * pacman
> * GNU make
> 
> 1. Install freebsd base system and boot into it, with no ports or virgin /usr/local
> 2. Download following tarballs:
> 
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.1.tar.gz
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.14.4.orig.tar.bz2
> ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/pacman/pacman-3.3.3.tar.gz
> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/make/make-3.81.tar.gz
> 
> 3. Extract them in your $HOME.
> 
> 4. Configure them:
> 
> - make. GNU Make
> 
> % ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --datadir=/usr/local/share \
>             --mandir=/usr/local/man --infodir=/usr/local/share/info \
>             --program-prefix=g
> 
> - pacman. Pacman should be configured in such a way that that the executable
>   should only have dynamic dependencies (.so) on shared libs present in base
>   system. The user who wants to pacbsd-ify his FreeBSD base installation shall
>   download a tarball containing the pacman binary (compiled in this way,
>   i.e. with only dependencies on base system) and a minimal configuration
>   file, and then with the help of that binary he can bootstrap rest of the
>   system, like: ./pacman -Sy --config pacman.conf --dbpath /var/cache/pacman
> 
> % ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc --localstatedir=/var \
>             --datadir=/usr/local/share --disable-internal-download --disable-doc \
>             --enable-static
> 
>   Since there is a version issue with libfetch in FreeBSD, I've disabled the
>   internal fetching mechanism.
> 
> - GNU bash.
> 
> % ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-curses --enable-readline \
>             --without-bash-malloc --bindir=/usr/local/bin --mandir=/usr/local/man \
>             --infodir=/usr/local/share/info --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc
> 
> - fakeroot.
> 
> % ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --libdir=/usr/local/lib/libfakeroot \
>             --disable-static --with-ipc=sysv
> 
> 5. Build and install them. GNU make and fakeroot are installable using BSD
>    make. bash and pacman needs GNU make (gmake) to build and install.
> 
> 6. Now time to build packages of all prerequisites. Extract the PKGBUILD
>    tarball attached to this mail. And in each of the directory, copy their
>    respective tarballs from the $HOME directory (or from the location you
>    downloaded the tarballs earlier). Please note, that this is required as
>    there are things related to downloading/installing tarballs are missing
>    atm. And I've not tried to rectify this issue atm.
> 
> 7. After copying all tarballs in their directories, time to build packages by
>    executing following command in each PKGBUILD directory:
> 
> % makepkg -f
> 
>    If you receive any errors, please post here with solutions ;)
> 
> 8. Now after all the packages are built, rename /usr/local to /usr/local.orig
> 
> 9. Create following directories with ownership 0:0 and mode 755:
> 
>    - /usr/local
>    - /var/cache/pacman
>    - /var/lib/pacman
> 
> 10. Now install pacman first, by executing following command in pacman's
>     PKGBUILD directory:
> 
> # /usr/local/pacman.orig/bin/pacman --config /usr/local.orig/etc/pacman.conf \
>          --dbpath /var/lib/pacman -U pacman-3.3.3-1-*.pkg.tar.gz
> 
> You'll get some warnings about mirrorlist file, ignore it.
> 
> 11. Now you've installed 'pacman' package now with the help of that install
>     rest of the packages.
> 
> # pacman -U <package-tarball-file>
> 
> If there are any errors in above instructions, please post the corrections. If
> you notice the PKGBUILDs, you'll see that they're copied from ArchLinux's ABS
> repository with depends/makedepends line commented. This is just a proof of
> concept, so I'm not committing this shit.
> 
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> 
> Happy bootstrapping, and post your feedback if possible.
>

Awesome!! Is there a wiki on sourceforge so that we can have this on 
the wiki. I tried searching for a wiki but didn't find one. I'm planning
to try this on virtualbox during weekends :)  
 
> Thanks
> Ashish SHUKLA
> 
> P.S. I'll be away from keyboard from Monday noon (IST) to Wednesday evening
>      (IST), so expect delay in reply.
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