From: "W. Trevor King" <[email protected]> Thanks to Zero_Chaos and dwfreed for clarification on #gentoo-releng. --- doc/HOWTO.txt | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/HOWTO.txt b/doc/HOWTO.txt index 5717f80..6b0fdf2 100644 --- a/doc/HOWTO.txt +++ b/doc/HOWTO.txt @@ -136,11 +136,14 @@ compiled toolchain, which is where Gentoo's stages come in. The “base system” contains the necessary build tools and supporting infrastructure to get things going. The stages are: -1. System must be bootstrapped and the base system must be compiled - (a new toolchain built with external seed tools). -2. Stage1 + bootstrapped (a new toolchain build with stage1 tools). -3. Stage2 + base system compiled (the base system built with stage2 tools). -4. Stage3 + non-base packages. +[options="header",frame="topbot",grid="none"] +|============================================================================ +| Source | Action | Result +| seed stage3 | Bootstrap a profile's `packages.build` toolchain | stage1 +| stage1 | Bootstrap Portage with Portage's `bootstrap.sh` | stage2 +| stage2 | Compile the base `@system` packages | stage3 +| stage3 | Compile additional `@world` packages | stage4 +|============================================================================ For more details on the differences between the stages, look at the target helper scripts (e.g. `targets/stage1/*.sh`). -- 1.8.4
