User:Mattst88

Developer
Name	Matt Turner
Nickname	mattst88 (www.g.o link)
Email	mattst88@gentoo.org
Fund me	https://github.com/sponsors/mattst88
Blog	https://mattst88.com/blog/
Developer bug	310977
Packages	p.g.o/mattst88@gentoo.org (commits)
Is active	Yes
Projects	Alpha Development Lead Catalyst Project Community Relations Gentoo Council Council member Release Engineering VA-API Lead X11 Project Lead

Mattst88

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mattst88@gentoo.org

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User info

devThis user is a Gentoo developer.

Gentoo user since 2004

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enThis user is a native speaker of English.

My subpages

• Mattst88/Council Manifesto
• Mattst88/NFS+Kerberos

Required Reading

• Linux is about choice
• No naked pings

My TODO list

Alpha

• aboot-2.0

Catalyst

• Switch IA64 ISO boot with sys-boot/grub—Done
• Switch SPARC ISO boot with sys-boot/grub—Done
• Switch SGI/MIPS ISO boot with sys-boot/grub
• Switch man pages away from app-text/asciidoc to something lighterweight bug #679374
  • Or just make building the documentation optional?
• Use squashfs images for porttree snapshots bug #274337—Done
  • Support handling arbitrary repos
• Fix kerncache—Done
• Make catalyst consume a file that contains information on multiple builds
  • Good place to start is to write a program that converts the new file format into multiple '.spec' files
  • Build multiple targets in a single catalyst invocation
    • Have catalyst understand which stages are just temporary, and don't compress them, etc
    • Use squashfs and mount in the next stage build using overlayfs
      • Use the 'volatile' mount option in v5.10+?
• Cross compiling support
  • Something with QEMU? bug #431214—Done
• Configure number of jobs/load-average in catalyst.conf—Done
  • Would allow specs to use the default `update_seed_command`
• Add some sanity checking to ensure that `pkgdir`, et al, set by catalyst match what portage is using
• Switch to pyproject.toml-based build system
• Overhaul the kernel building system
  • Simplify and allow only a single kernel sources package to be used (e.g. for all of the kernels on a LiveCD)
• Containerize catalyst and break the dependence on the host system's bootloader
• Use sys-apps/util-linux's Python libmount API instead of calling mount(8)—Done
• Run only the functions that need bind mounts inside a mount namespace—Done
  • Will prevent catalyst from accidentally deleting things outside of the chroot
• Remove the dependency on dev-python/pydecomp
• Encode QEMU interpreter name into architecture .toml files, for use if building on an incompatible host
• Script finding and including required .so files, rather than manually listing them in netboot/packages/<label>/files
• Set locale.gen before stage1's update seed
  • Create and use a CHOST-based pkgdir for updating the seed, ccache, distcc

MIPS

• Build new SGI boot CD (using GRUB) bug #150402

Wiki

• Update Alpha Handbook partitioning instructions to use sys-block/parted instead of fdisk
• Update PPC/PPC64 Handbook instructions to use sys-boot/grub instead of sys-boot/yaboot
• Update SPARC Handbook instructions to use sys-boot/grub instead of sys-boot/silo

X11

• Make media-libs/libglvnd non-optional—Done