Network from Scratch on Gentoo: Official Support

[Peter Stuge]

Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Gentoo Linux now supports Network from Scratch in 5 easy steps.

Looks like you're off to a good start with this.

> using jolly's branches for the live ebuilds.

I think the ebuilds needs to use master by default, but I think it
would be lovely to be able to opt for a different branch. One easy
way would be a USE flag, but that's perhaps not the best way. Ideas?


> (ETA on when we can ship master?)

The ETA likely depends on the reason that the branch hasn't been merged.
Maybe you can help with that?


> 2. Make sure your portage tree is up to date, and emerge the right packages:
> 
>     $ sudo emerge --sync
>     $ sudo emerge openbsc osmobts osmotrx

openbsc should indeed not depend on osmobts but I think osmobts
should have a USE flag to make it DEPEND & RDEPEND on osmotrx
Thoughts?


> 3. Download configuration templates:
> 
>     $ wget -O ~/.osmocom/open-bsc.cfg http://bpaste.net/raw/236987/
>     $ wget -O ~/.osmocom/osmo-bts.cfg http://bpaste.net/raw/237000/

Please add config examples in files/ and install them into
/usr/share/doc/{openbsc,osmobts}-9999/examples/ or so.

>     $ mkdir ~/.osmocom

What do you think about hooking into emerge --config for copying the
installed example configuration files to the user's home?

One snag is that --config is rather for system-wide configuration.


> 4. Edit configuration templates to work on spectrum you have a license for:
> 
>     $ vim ~/.osmocom/*.cfg
> 
> 5. Start these babies up, in separate shells:
> 
>     shell1 $ osmo-nitb -c ~/.osmocom/open-bsc.cfg -l ~/.osmocom/hlr.sqlite3 -P -C --debug=DRLL:DCC:DMM:DRR:DRSL:DNM
>     shell2 $ osmobts-trx -c ~/.osmocom/osmo-bts.cfg
>     shell3 $ osmo-trx

I think the tmux startup file {c,sh}ould also go into files/ along
with the example configs. :)

Maybe things in your git repo can go to either osmocom or gentoo
repos?


//Peter