Duncan wrote:
If you /do/ choose to go 32-bit chroot, but it's DEFINITELY a recommended
read in ANY case, take a look at the amd64 technotes, available here:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes/index.xml

For information about how to set up a chroot properly, you better read the 32bit chroot guide [1].

*** AGAIN, READ THE ABOVE TECH NOTES!!! ***  They will answer a number of
questions before you ask and could save you some major headaches
needlessly going thru stuff others have already figured out.

Reading the technotes doesn't harm, but most of its content is just terribly old-cruft that is no longer relevant. Thus, the technotes will get removed as soon as everything relevant is moved to other docs. Currently, this is mainly the FAQ [2] and the chroot guide.

amd64 stable.  They have read access to the CVS/Subversion tree, and
slightly elevated privileges on bugzilla, but any proposed patches and the
like still go thru a fully certified Gentoo developer to get into the

They don't have cvs read access yet, but hopefully they will after an updated version of GLEP 41 [3] is approved.

tree.  It's pretty safe to say that the ATs are one of the big reasons the
number of packages in portage available to amd64 and ~amd64 users has
grown to be near that of x86, and that is becoming more the case every
day.

You can say that again ;)

[1]
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=3
[2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml
[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0041.html

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