User:Mattst88

Mattst88
Name	Matt Turner
Nickname	mattst88
Email	mattst88@gentoo.org
Blog	https://mattst88.com/blog/
Developer bug	310977
Packages	p.g.o/mattst88@gentoo.org
Is active	Yes
Projects	Alpha Development Lead Base System Catalyst Project Community Relations Gentoo Council Council member GNOME Desktop Google Summer of Code 2021 Mentor HPPA Development IA64 Development MIPS Development Lead PowerPC Development Release Engineering Lead, Alpha/HPPA/IA64/MIPS/PPC/PPC64/SPARC/S390 Release Coordinator s390 Development SPARC Development Toolchain Project X11 Project Lead

Mattst88

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Gentoo user since 2004

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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

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