Licensing
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-Catalyst is copyrighted by the Gentoo Foundation, and is released under the
-terms of the GNU General Public License v.2.1. For more information, please
-consult COPYING.
+Originally, Catalyst was copyrighted by the Gentoo Foundation, Inc. and was
+released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v.2.1. Since this
+is a fork of that project, all new code is no longer copyrighted to the Gentoo
+Foundation. Currently, copyright is held by the individual authors for their
+contributions. For more information, please consult COPYING.
Disclaimer
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-The Gentoo Foundation extends no warranty or guarantee for catalyst. This
-software is provided to the public to comply with the Gentoo social contract
-and to assist other distributors and integrators of Gentoo and Gentoo-based
-solutions. Use at your own risk.
+This software is covered by no warranty or guarantee of functionality. It is
+provided to the public for use in creating source-based distributions in a
+simple and reproducable manner. Use at your own risk.
Requirements
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What is catalyst?
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-Catalyst is the Gentoo Linux project's release building tool. With catalyst,
+Catalyst is a release building tool, used by Gentoo Linux. With catalyst,
you are able to completely customize your Gentoo install by customizing
the very tools that are used to install a system. Official Gentoo Linux release
media is built with catalyst.
- automatically pull stages
- check that distcc_hosts is set before enabling distcc
- allow setting of distcc_hosts in catalyst.conf with override in the specs
+- check ccache settings, such as size, and ensure we don't overwrite them
- perform user management via a loop in livecd-stage2
+- add portage jobs support
+ - --jobs
+ - --keep-going
+ - --load-average
+- perform GCC version detection in seed stages to determine supported settings
+- build bootloaders for targets on-demand, rather than using pre-built tarballs
+
def version():
print "Catalyst, version "+__version__
print "Copyright 2003-2008 Gentoo Foundation"
- print "Distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2\n"
+ print "Copyright 2008 various authors"
+ print "Distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.1\n"
def parse_config(myconfig):
# search a couple of different areas for the main config file
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