On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:49:05 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Well, the "enhancement" would be that we don't need stage1+2 tarballs anymore, it would solve several dependency bugs, in theory remove the need for the bootstrap use flag and simplify documentation. The proposal is to just let everyone start from a stage3 environment and just let them run different commands depending if they want a fully customized system (stage1 install) or use a prebuilt system (stage3 install), don't know how to describe a stage2 install. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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