I heard Matthew Tedder said:

> Widely used, but these are early release candidates and they are
> split up into a variety of different branches..  How well tested,
> therefore, is each particular combination?

Well enough that most of the problems you'll encounter will be your own 
fault, don't worry. See below.

> After extracting these tar balls, it is not located in ANY of the
> /bin or /sbin directories anywhere in the system.

sundance@byblos ~ % wget ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/\
releases/1.4_rc2/x86/i586/stages/stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2
[...]

21:41:21 (51.27 KB/s) - � stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 � sauvegard� 
[90051335]

sundance@byblos ~ % tar jtvf stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 | grep make
[...]
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0          143908 2002-12-04 01:21:24 ./usr/bin/make
[...]

See? Make *IS* there.

Ditto for bash:
sundance@byblos ~ % tar jtvf stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 | grep bash
[...]
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0          554488 2002-12-04 00:34:07 ./bin/bash
[...]

>> As I said, it's not the software.  bash is there.  make is there.
>> They work.
>
> No... it really truelly isn't.

Heck yes it is.

Seven years Unix admin, sheesh.
It's one large troll and we fell into it head first. *g*

Ah well. At least now we're sure that our trust in the Gentoo release 
team need not waver.

-- S.

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