On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 09:44 +0100, Shinkan wrote: > > 2009/11/30 Peter Stuge <[email protected]> > > > USE CATALYST! > > > To do this you will create stage2, stage3 and stage4 spec > files > (maybe also stage1, I'm not sure on that) for catalyst. It can > produce exactly what you want. > > > Fine, I believe this would be controlled by USE flags for > stage2 and > up. > > > Please just start playing with the catalyst examples. I hope > you will > quickly learn what they produce. > > I already looked a lot into Catalyst but some points doesn't fit to my > plans : > - I have to use a profile if I want to specify things (for instance > ports version) for base stage. I really don't want to build a profile > because they're hard to maintain in a wide use scheme, and because > that's overkill. > - Catatalyst seems to build by substraction (I mean on livecd, it > builds from a stage3, then unmerges and removes things). I want to > build with additive steps (from nothing). > - I want to be able to just emerge one new port or update one on a > target, and with Catalyst I cant. I must rebuild all (yeah, cache is > there but...), and I really need to build just one port on some cases. > > That's why I thought about a "build" directory built from my host with > crossdev. Then I use this build env to build my target with gcc/libc I > want. If I have to build just one port, I can use my build env for > this target again. > Since I choose what to build from nothing, I don't have to use profile > to define what I put in my target or build. I don't break system by > removing things. > My build standard "make.conf" serves as usual, I have nothing more > than a crossdev, a make.conf filling, and some emerge to a given root. > > That's what I want, but I don't know how to achieve this. > If Catalyst can offer me this control, I would be glad to use it.
catalyst can do none of the above and it's not cross-compile aware at all. Building from nothing is the right way to handle what you are trying to accomplish. Good luck. -- Ned Ludd <[email protected]> Gentoo Linux
