On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 20:17 -0800, W. Trevor King wrote: > From: "W. Trevor King" <[email protected]> > > Thanks to Zero_Chaos and dwfreed for clarification on #gentoo-releng. > --- > Changes from v2: > * Don't mention "Portage" in stage1 → stage2 to avoid confusion > between Porage-the-software and Portage-the-ebuild-tree. > > doc/HOWTO.txt | 13 ++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/doc/HOWTO.txt b/doc/HOWTO.txt > index 5717f80..20427cf 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 | Rebuild the toolchain with the package tree'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`).
This looks good to me. I like the table showing the steps.
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