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Based on Gentoo ...Based on Gentoo ...Posted Jan 21, 2011 3:50 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868)In reply to: Based on Gentoo ... by vapier Parent article: The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net
It *was* ubuntu-based a long time ago, but then they switched to gentoo at some point.
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Based on Gentoo ... Posted Feb 7, 2011 11:16 UTC (Mon) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]
My understanding is that it's deb (ubuntu-based) packages built using the gentoo build system, which seems kind of peverse, but there you go. They started off using xdeb (then called chromium-os-builder) to cross-build ubuntu packages but switched to the gentoo tools after a while. I know this because I'm now looking after the xdeb tool and the chromium-os-builder heritage shows through in many places.
Based on Gentoo ... Posted Feb 7, 2011 12:14 UTC (Mon) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link]
Not that perverse. Gentoo/Portage has had support for generating RPM packages for ages. It's just that it usually doesn't.
Simply abstracting the dependencies/names into the right places, changing the tarball to cpio, and instead of padding with metadata, making it into a "proper" rpm or deb.
So, not quite as perverse as you may think, in fact part of the original design of portage/emerge was to allow it ;)
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