On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 21:15 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > Well, the bootstrap script isn't the problem here. It's supposed to > rebuild the toolchain and it does that just fine. The problem is with > the following `emerge system`. With a proper vardb it will only install > packages that are in the system profile but missing in the stage, but it > won't rebuild things that are provided in the stage1 like wget for > example. `emerge -e system` would solve that but also recompile the > toolchain a second time. By removing vardb from the stage tarball you > get the desired effect but you also get tons of orphaned files. > > Personally I'm in favor of racs new proposal (I think he's already > working on a GLEP for it) as described on > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=254119
Sorry if I'm a bit dense, but even after reading the entire thread I just don't get it. What exactly *is* rac's proposal? Second, why does this require a GLEP? This seems more like a bug to me, than any form of "enhancement" that would require a GLEP. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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