User:Veremit/ARM catalyst setup

This page attempts to document setting up a Debian/Ubuntu ARM system to perform catalyst stage-building for Gentoo Linux.

The broad method goes as follows:

1. Essential host packages: tmux, ntp
2. Set up disk[s] - [[like this]]
• I recommend a separate partition for catalyst files, as these quickly become large
3. Set up swapfile/partition - you *WILL* need this!!
4. Download a stage3 tarball - [[here]]
5. Install to defined location
6. Download portage snapshot and unpack
7. Chroot into stage3 - [[reminder]]
8. Create working folder
9. unmask catalyst-9999 (whilst snapshots are current, patches are being submitted regularly)
10. Useful/essential chroot packages (target world file):
    

    app-portage/cfg-update
    app-portage/eix
    app-portage/gentoolkit
    app-portage/layman
    app-portage/portage-bashrc-mv
    app-text/wgetpaste
    dev-util/catalyst
    dev-vcs/git
    net-fs/nfs-utils
    net-misc/ntp
    sys-apps/moreutils
    sys-apps/portage
    sys-auth/nss-mdns
    sys-devel/distcc
    sys-devel/icecream
    sys-process/htop

11. Check out releng repository to working folder
12. Create working 'specs' folder, and copy relevant specs from releng.git into here
13. set up or check out [[update scripts]] to keep specs updated
• alternatively you could try catalyst-auto - ymmv
14. [[run catalyst]] and Wait ..
15. go make lunch/coffee/etc
16. wait some more
17. voilà - hopefully you have a tarball waiting for you, or a pile of errors.