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. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
