Some days ago, I decided to switch on riemann (my x86 box) from ~x86 to ~x86-fbsd. So, for the first time, I natively installed g/fbsd 7.0 on a workstation (before this I handle w/ *bsd stuffs using vmware).
After I got a runnin’ system, I tried to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11 to have a nice and confortable environment to work. I noticed that sysfs/e2fsprogs didn’t compile, and it’s a dependency of xorg. Actually, there isn’t found a sane way to fix this problem, so the fixx wasn’t commit to portage. However, Javier write a quick hack to solve. You can find it here. I didn’t encountered any other problems, the compilation finished successfully. Everythin’ worked fine. So, after I installed xorg + dwm, I obtained my shiny environment.
After this, I tried to compile some software. I realized that perl didn’t work on my machine, but talking on #gentoo-bsd on freenode I discovered that this problem was fixed properly recently. So, I updated gentoo-bsd overlay ( using ssh, brrr) , I launched an emerge -e system and I went to sleep. This morning, when I woke up I found that the _totally_ recompilation was ended successfully. Now I have perl working. This means I can install git and update the bsd overlay from riemann, instead of doing a tarball from another machine and transfer it using ssh
Yeah Gentoo, I’m still a fan. Love for you today!
P.S. Maybe have I to change my hackergotchi ?