On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:36 pm, Marius Mauch wrote: > Honestly I don't know if stage1 ever had a fully populated /var/db/pkg, > could be that it was always done that way and just nobody noticed.
i'm pretty sure it has been the way release media (i.e. stages) is created was always a dark art no one knew anything about (except a few core people). then catalyst came along and it inherited a lot of the dark baggage (and none of those core people) theres no point in getting angry at people over 'lack of bugs' and such ... people just dont know how things 'should be done' because this is just the way it's *always* been done (at least as long as they've been here) ... that probably includes zhen :). i myself have asked questions about why certain things are done in a stage1 and no one replies (-> no one knows, the people who do are long gone) i'll happily work with you in getting bootstrap.sh up-to-speed with stage1's that include a full /var/db/pkg ... i dont think many here have been around long enough to know how much work (read: hacks) it took in the past just so that people going from a stage1 didnt have to build their toolchain (gcc/glibc) twice. nor should a toolchain be built twice imho. -mike -- [email protected] mailing list
