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  16. Pre-built kernels!

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    Hi All,

     

    For a long while, the most time-consuming and potentially error-prone part of installing Funtoo Linux has been building a kernel. I worded to make this better by creating the debian-sources kernel, when combined with the "binary" USE flag will build you a kernel that just works. The problem: the compile time is excessive -- it can take an hour or more even on relatively modern hardware.

     

    To make installing Funtoo Linux even easier, stage3's are now including debian-sources pre-built! We're using the Funtoo compute power made available by Funtoo supporters to save you time and hassle when installing Funtoo :) All you need to do is configure a boot loader and you're ready to go :)

     

    I enabled this yesterday on our build servers, so it will take a few days before all stage3's are updated to include debian-sources. If they have a date of 2015-05-11 or later, they should have a kernel and initramfs included.

     

    If you still want to build your own custom kernel, it is easy enough to unmerge, remove kernel and initramfs, and build your own.

     

    Enjoy!

     

    -Daniel

  18. QA Bot is go! Tell me what you want it to test!

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    Hey all,

     

    Metro now has the ability to perform QA tests and to file JIRA bugs :)

     

    Tell me what you'd like me to have tested for you. I'll explain what we are testing so far:

     

    Before anything is updated in your Portage tree, we make sure that all the stuff in a stage3 merges cleanly for both funtoo-current and funtoo-stable.

     

    QA bot's first job is to make sure that gnome always merges cleanly in funtoo-current. The test involves peforming a full merge of gnome and reporting any failed packages.

     

    The first sets of tests we'll be doing involve build testing like this -- which ensures that the required ebuild(s) build cleanly, all deps are resolved, and and emerged packages that depend on said ebuilds find all the stuff they are expected to find.

     

    As we improve our QA efforts, I will support the ability to perform arbitrary QA tests that are not just about build testing and dep resolution. But that's where I want to start.

     

    One good source of ideas of packages that are important to you are in /var/lib/portage/world. Let me know what you want to see tested.

     

    Regards,

     

    Daniel

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