On Friday 02 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a > > 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2 > > system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files > > using whatever I get when I chroot into the new installation? > > > > At this moment I'm doing the tar xjf portage-latest step and > > noticed the inconsistency. Apparently all the 2007.0 snapshots, > > etc., are now gone from the servers. > > There shouldn't be a problem. Aside from the fact that a LiveCD is > quite a complex thing, as far as installation goes it's sole > purpose is to provide an environment where you can unpack a stage3 > and chroot into it. > > When you have chrooted, you are essentially in a self-contained > environment and all that is left of the original environment is the > kernel it provides.
Well, plus all running services/daemons unless you take them down after chrooting and bring them up again within the chroot. This can be a life saver. I have my portage tree on box A while box B NFS mounts it. At one stage, NFS versions of A and B got so out of sync, B couldn't NFS mount /usr/portage any more. A LiveCD with an NFS version matching (well, at least fitting) the one on box A was my path to salvation. ;-) > The build system is provided entirely by the > chroot and nothing in user space can come from or be influenced by > what's outside it (this is the entire point of chroot). This, of course, is absolutely true. Uwe -- Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! -- [email protected] mailing list
