2024-10-27 Stage3 and live medium

Release information:

The packages are built using qemu-chroot using the scripts in this repository.
Some used configuration is in my personal overlay https://github.com/bell07/gentoo-bell07_overlay

This relase is an regular update. The sys-devel/gcc is updated to 11.5.0, but I did not rebuild all packages this time.
The most packages in this release are still compiled using gcc-11.4.1.

The used toolchain versions are:

sys-devel/gcc-11.5.0
sys-libs/glibc-2.35-r11
sys-devel/binutils-2.42-r2
sys-kernel/linux-headers-9999.512: Use same sources as sys-kernel/nintendo-switch-l4t-sources-4.9.140.512 (switchroot 5.1.2)

Stage3 (openrc)

The main difference to the official stage3 is replaced sys-kernel/linux-headers. Because of old headers, the glibc and gcc are sticked to older versions too.

All packages are compiled with Switch-optimizations as defined in switch_overlay profile switch:nintendo_switch/23.0. (merged-usr layout).

The stage includes already dev-vcs/git and settings for switch_overlay. You can checkout both, gentoo and switch_overlay repo, using

emaint sync -A

in chroot.

Live Linux

Small Live Gentoo for Nintendo Switch. Useful for analysis reasons or if you like to install Gentoo natively without qemu or cross compiling.

• Runs fully in RAM (~240 MB used after boot), that means formatting or replacing SD-card at runtime is possible (but still not recommended)
• Framebuffer console enabled by default to external monitor
• gpm mouse support on framebuffer console
• SSH-Server with root login allowed is enabled by default. You can login after boot using ssh root@switch-live
• WIFI settings can be set in vfat:/switchroot/live/wpa_supplicant.conf. The file is copied to ramdisk and used to connect on boot

"root" user password is "Gentoo4Switch!"

New packages in this release:

app-misc/tmux: Terminal multiplexer

All Live Linux installed packages

Some not relevant packages removed from list (like virtuals). Some packages are incomplete in the initramfs to save space.

[I] app-admin/testdisk (7.2@27.10.2024): Checks and undeletes partitions + PhotoRec, signature based recovery tool
[I] app-arch/bzip2 (1.0.8-r5(0/1){gpkg}@25.07.2024): A high-quality data compressor used extensively by Gentoo Linux
[I] app-arch/gzip (1.13-r1{gpkg}@26.07.2024): Standard GNU compressor
[I] app-arch/lz4 (1.10.0-r1(0/1.10.0-meson){gpkg}@18.08.2024): Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
[I] app-arch/p7zip (17.05-r1{gpkg}@23.10.2024): Port of 7-Zip archiver for Unix
[I] app-arch/tar (1.35{gpkg}@27.10.2024): Use this to make tarballs :)
[I] app-arch/unzip (6.0_p27-r1{gpkg:2}@21.08.2024): unzipper for pkzip-compressed files
[I] app-arch/xz-utils (5.6.2-r1{gpkg}@26.07.2024): Utils for managing LZMA compressed files
[I] app-arch/zstd (1.5.6(0/1){gpkg}@27.07.2024): zstd fast compression library
[I] app-crypt/libb2 (0.98.1-r3{gpkg}@29.07.2024): C library providing BLAKE2b, BLAKE2s, BLAKE2bp, BLAKE2sp
[I] app-crypt/libmd (1.1.0{gpkg}@25.07.2024): Message Digest functions from BSD systems
[I] app-crypt/mit-krb5 (1.21.3{gpkg}@02.09.2024): MIT Kerberos V
[I] app-editors/nano (8.1{gpkg}@27.10.2024): GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality
[I] app-misc/ca-certificates (20240203.3.98{gpkg:2}@22.08.2024): Common CA Certificates PEM files
[I] app-misc/evtest (1.35{gpkg}@07.08.2024): test program for capturing input device events
[I] app-misc/mc (4.8.32-r1{gpkg}@27.10.2024): GNU Midnight Commander is a text based file manager
[I] app-misc/mime-types (2.1.54{gpkg}@25.07.2024): Provides /etc/mime.types file
[I] app-misc/screen (4.9.1-r1{gpkg}@27.10.2024): screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
[I] app-misc/tmux (3.4-r1{gpkg}@24.10.2024): Terminal multiplexer
[I] app-shells/bash (5.2_p37{gpkg}@23.10.2024): The standard GNU Bourne again shell
[I] dev-db/sqlite (3.46.0(3){gpkg:2}@22.08.2024): SQL database engine
[U] dev-lang/python (3.11.10_p1(3.11){gpkg:2}@26.10.2024 -> 2.7.18_p16-r2(2.7)^t 3.8.20_p2(3.8)^t 3.9.20_p1(3.9)^t 3.10.15_p1(3.10)^t 3.11.10_p1(3.11)^t{gpkg:2} 3.12.6_p4(3.12)^t{gpkg:2}): Freethreading (no-GIL) version of Python programming language
[I] dev-libs/cJSON (1.7.18{gpkg}@01.08.2024): Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C
[I] dev-libs/elfutils (0.191-r1{gpkg}@02.09.2024): Libraries/utilities to handle ELF objects (drop in replacement for libelf)
[I] dev-libs/expat (2.6.3{gpkg}@08.09.2024): Stream-oriented XML parser library
[I] dev-libs/glib (2.78.6(2){gpkg}@27.10.2024): The GLib library of C routines
[I] dev-libs/gmp (6.3.0-r1(0/10.4){gpkg}@27.07.2024): Library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic on different type of numbers
[I] dev-libs/libbsd (0.11.8{gpkg}@27.07.2024): Library to provide useful functions commonly found on BSD systems
[I] dev-libs/libev (4.33{gpkg}@01.08.2024): A high-performance event loop/event model with lots of feature
[I] dev-libs/libevent (2.1.12-r1(0/2.1-7){gpkg}@01.08.2024): Library to execute a function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor
[I] dev-libs/libffi (3.4.6(0/8){gpkg}@08.09.2024): Portable, high level programming interface to various calling conventions
[I] dev-libs/libnl (3.10.0(3){gpkg}@23.10.2024): Libraries providing APIs to netlink protocol based Linux kernel interfaces
[I] dev-libs/libpcre (8.45-r3(3){gpkg}@02.08.2024): Perl-compatible regular expression library
[I] dev-libs/libpcre2 (10.44-r1(0/3){gpkg}@29.08.2024): Perl-compatible regular expression library
[I] dev-libs/libunistring (1.2(0/5){gpkg}@26.07.2024): Library for manipulating Unicode and C strings according to Unicode standard
[I] dev-libs/libusb (1.0.27-r1(1){gpkg}@27.10.2024): Userspace access to USB devices
[I] dev-libs/libverto (0.3.2{gpkg}@01.08.2024): Main event loop abstraction library
[I] dev-libs/libxml2 (2.12.7(2){gpkg:2}@21.08.2024): XML C parser and toolkit
[I] dev-libs/mpc (1.3.1(0/3){gpkg}@27.07.2024): A library for multiprecision complex arithmetic with exact rounding
[I] dev-libs/mpdecimal (4.0.0(4){gpkg}@25.07.2024): Correctly-rounded arbitrary precision decimal floating point arithmetic
[I] dev-libs/mpfr (4.2.1(0/6){gpkg}@27.07.2024): Library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding
[I] dev-libs/newt (0.52.24{gpkg}@27.10.2024): Redhat's Newt windowing toolkit development files
[I] dev-libs/openssl (3.3.2(0/3){gpkg}@23.10.2024): Robust, full-featured Open Source Toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS)
[I] dev-libs/popt (1.19-r1{gpkg}@27.07.2024): Parse Options - Command line parser
[I] net-analyzer/traceroute (2.1.5@27.10.2024): Utility to trace the route of IP packets
[I] net-dns/libidn2 (2.3.7(0/2){gpkg}@29.07.2024): An implementation of the IDNA2008 specifications (RFCs 5890, 5891, 5892, 5893)
[I] net-fs/cifs-utils (7.0-r1{gpkg}@27.10.2024): Tools for Managing Linux CIFS Client Filesystems
[I] net-misc/dhcp (4.4.3_p1-r6@27.10.2024): ISC Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client/server
[I] net-misc/iperf (3.17.1(3){gpkg}@23.10.2024): A TCP, UDP, and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool
[I] net-misc/iputils (20240117{gpkg}@03.08.2024): Network monitoring tools including ping and ping6
[I] net-misc/netifrc (0.7.8-r1{gpkg}@21.08.2024): Gentoo Network Interface Management Scripts
[I] net-misc/openssh (9.8_p1-r2{gpkg}@27.10.2024): Port of OpenBSD's free SSH release
[I] net-misc/rsync (3.3.0-r1{gpkg}@27.10.2024): File transfer program to keep remote files into sync
[I] net-misc/wget (1.24.5{gpkg}@05.08.2024): Network utility to retrieve files from the WWW
[I] net-misc/whois (5.5.23@27.10.2024): Improved Whois Client
[I] net-wireless/wireless-regdb (20240508{gpkg}@23.10.2024): Wireless Regulatory database for Linux
[I] net-wireless/wpa_supplicant (2.10-r5{gpkg}@27.10.2024): IEEE 802.1X/WPA supplicant for secure wireless transfers
[I] sys-apps/attr (2.5.2-r1{gpkg}@27.07.2024): Extended attributes tools
[I] sys-apps/baselayout (2.15{gpkg}@30.07.2024): Filesystem baselayout and init scripts
[I] sys-apps/coreutils (9.5{gpkg}@27.10.2024): Standard GNU utilities (chmod, cp, dd, ls, sort, tr, head, wc, who,...)
[I] sys-apps/file (5.45-r4{gpkg}@02.08.2024): Identify a file's format by scanning binary data for patterns
[I] sys-apps/findutils (4.10.0{gpkg}@02.08.2024): GNU utilities for finding files
[I] sys-apps/gawk (5.3.0-r1{gpkg}@05.08.2024): GNU awk pattern-matching language
[I] sys-apps/gptfdisk (1.0.10-r1{gpkg}@23.10.2024): GPT partition table manipulator for Linux
[I] sys-apps/grep (3.11-r1{gpkg}@29.07.2024): GNU regular expression matcher
[I] sys-apps/hwdata (0.383{gpkg}@25.07.2024): Hardware identification and configuration data
[I] sys-apps/iproute2 (6.9.0{gpkg}@27.10.2024): kernel routing and traffic control utilities
[I] sys-apps/kbd (2.6.4{gpkg}@27.10.2024): Keyboard and console utilities
[I] sys-apps/keyutils (1.6.3-r1(0/1.9){gpkg}@31.07.2024): Linux Key Management Utilities
[I] sys-apps/kmod (33{gpkg}@23.10.2024): Library and tools for managing linux kernel modules
[I] sys-apps/less (643-r2{gpkg}@02.08.2024): Excellent text file viewer
[I] sys-apps/net-tools (2.10{gpkg}@01.08.2024): Standard Linux networking tools
[I] sys-apps/openrc (0.54.2{gpkg:2}@27.10.2024): OpenRC manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host
[I] sys-apps/pciutils (3.13.0{gpkg}@03.08.2024): Various utilities dealing with the PCI bus
[I] sys-apps/sed (4.9-r1{gpkg}@27.10.2024): Super-useful stream editor
[I] sys-apps/shadow (4.14.2(0/4){gpkg}[1]@27.10.2024): Utilities to deal with user accounts
[I] sys-apps/system-chroot [2] (20230705@27.10.2024): Prepare a system root to be mounted in chroot. Do all submounts like sys or proc.
[I] sys-apps/systemd-utils (252.10{gpkg}[1]@27.10.2024): Utilities split out from systemd for OpenRC users
[I] sys-apps/sysvinit (3.09{gpkg}@22.08.2024): /sbin/init - parent of all processes
[I] sys-apps/usbutils (017{gpkg}@26.07.2024): USB enumeration utilities
[I] sys-apps/util-linux (2.39.4-r1{gpkg:2}@27.10.2024): Various useful Linux utilities
[I] sys-apps/which (2.21{gpkg}@25.07.2024): Prints out location of specified executables that are in your path
[I] sys-block/f3 (8.0-r1@27.10.2024): Utilities to detect broken or counterfeit flash storage
[I] sys-block/partimage (0.6.9-r4@27.10.2024): Console-based application to efficiently save raw partition data to image file
[I] sys-devel/gettext (0.22.5{gpkg:2}@27.10.2024): GNU locale utilities
[I] sys-devel/patch (2.7.6-r5{gpkg}@02.08.2024): Utility to apply diffs to files
[I] sys-firmware/jetson-tx1-firmware [1] (32.3.1{gpkg}@25.07.2024): NVIDIA Jetson TX1 firmware only package
[I] sys-fs/ddrescue (1.28@27.10.2024): Copy data from one file or block device to another with read-error recovery
[I] sys-fs/dosfstools (4.2{gpkg}@25.07.2024): DOS filesystem tools - provides mkdosfs, mkfs.msdos, mkfs.vfat
[I] sys-fs/e2fsprogs (1.47.1{gpkg}@28.07.2024): Standard EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 filesystem utilities
[I] sys-fs/exfatprogs (1.2.4{gpkg}@25.07.2024): Userspace utilities for the exFAT filesystem (kernel 5.7+)
[I] sys-fs/ext4magic (0.3.2-r2@27.10.2024): Tool for recovery of deleted or overwritten files on ext3/ext4 filesystems
[I] sys-fs/f2fs-tools (1.16.0-r1(0/10){gpkg}@04.08.2024): Tools for Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS)
[I] sys-fs/ntfs3g (2022.10.3(0/89){gpkg}@27.10.2024): Open source read-write NTFS driver that runs under FUSE
[I] sys-fs/udev-init-scripts (35{gpkg}@26.07.2024): udev startup scripts for openrc
[I] sys-kernel/nintendo-switch-l4t-kernel [1] (4.9.140.512(4.9.140.512){gpkg}@27.10.2024): Nintendo Switch kernel
[I] sys-libs/gdbm (1.24(0/6){gpkg}@29.08.2024): Standard GNU database libraries
[I] sys-libs/glibc (2.35-r11(2.2){gpkg}@29.07.2024): GNU libc C library
[I] sys-libs/gpm (1.20.7-r6{gpkg}@29.07.2024): Console-based mouse driver
[I] sys-libs/libcap (2.70{gpkg}@27.10.2024): POSIX 1003.1e capabilities
[I] sys-libs/libcap-ng (0.8.5{gpkg}@01.08.2024): POSIX 1003.1e capabilities
[I] sys-libs/libseccomp (2.5.5-r1{gpkg}@02.08.2024): High level interface to Linux seccomp filter
[I] sys-libs/libxcrypt (4.4.36-r3(0/1){gpkg}@02.08.2024): Extended crypt library for descrypt, md5crypt, bcrypt, and others
[I] sys-libs/ncurses (6.4_p20240414(0/6){gpkg:2}@27.10.2024): Console display library
[I] sys-libs/readline (8.2_p13(0/8){gpkg}@23.10.2024): Another cute console display library
[I] sys-libs/slang (2.3.3-r1{gpkg}@27.10.2024): Multi-platform library designed to allow a developer to create robust software
[I] sys-libs/talloc (2.4.2{gpkg}@24.10.2024): Samba talloc library
[I] sys-libs/timezone-data (2024a-r1{gpkg}@25.07.2024): Timezone data (/usr/share/zoneinfo) and utilities (tzselect/zic/zdump)
[I] sys-libs/zlib (1.3.1-r1(0/1){gpkg:2}@21.08.2024): Standard (de)compression library
[I] sys-process/htop (3.3.0{gpkg}@27.10.2024): Interactive process viewer
[I] sys-process/iotop (0.6_p20230124{gpkg}@05.08.2024): Top-like UI used to show which process is using the I/O
[I] sys-process/lsof (4.99.3{gpkg}@05.08.2024): Lists open files for running Unix processes
[I] sys-process/procps (4.0.4-r1(0/0-ng){gpkg:2}@22.08.2024): Standard informational utilities and process-handling tools
[I] sys-process/psmisc (23.7{gpkg:2}@22.08.2024): A set of tools that use the proc filesystem
[I] www-client/lynx (2.9.0@27.10.2024): An excellent console-based web browser with ssl support
[I] x11-misc/shared-mime-info (2.4-r1{gpkg}@02.08.2024): The Shared MIME-info Database specification