Hi, Giorgio!
1. Is there some documentation available for the lazy guys (i.e. from the CRUX-PPC folks) to avoid duplicate brainwork?
yep we've been lazy lately but there is a crux-ppc 2.2 (it's alpha but it's quite usable) available if you go to seek on our "improvements" forum...
Okay, is there a separate mailing list where the crux-ppc people get together? I don't speak italian, so crux-it might not be very helpful to me. (BTW: cruxppc.sunsite.dk is way too slow for serious work over here) I think that my system - an MPC8540 embedded PPC (BookE, e500 core) should be able to get along with the default ppc stuff most of the time.
2. Is it possible / a good idea to build the ports db by package-by-package migration (installation / update) via my own ports tree just starting it, installing over the existing system?
the plain crux (or crux-ppc, if you go back a couple of versions of it you might find a more readable one) Makefile should be ok to do that.
Jup, I've just built pkgutils + friends. Is there an outline of an diff of the ppc vs. the x86 crux infrastructure somewhere documented?
installing everything somewhere else and using the new environment should be a better idea...
Yep, good point. Maybe I try some overlay filesystem stuff and separate the old from the new stuff that way. I don't like the dual-root approach somehow yet... hmm... Best greets, Clemens Koller _______________________________ R&D Imaging Devices Anagramm GmbH Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1 81379 Muenchen Germany http://www.anagramm.de Phone: +49-89-741518-50 Fax: +49-89-741518-19