On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 05:17:55PM +0600, ssmtpmailtesting ssmtpmailtesting wrote: > Is it possible to use gentoo stage3 as tools or temporary system? > > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/20170124/stage3-i686-20170124.tar.bz2 > > Then is it possible to skip chapter 5 to make tools or toolchain or > temporary system?
(replying late, because for some reason mail from this list didn't arrive for hours) - For a host system, I think people have already answered you. And, at a _big_ pinch I might concede that using something other than the same version of LFS to enter chroot *might* not be too disastrous. But we aim for two things - to ensure that the new LFS is isolated from whatever weird and wonderful things might be in the host system, and to be repeatable. Using some random system to enter chroot makes me worry - back to the days of LFS-4 (before the changes for 'pure lfs' which became LFS-5) : what works for me might not work for you (and vice versa). At the end of the day, if you chroot from a gentoo system and something goes wrong, you may be on your own. Yes, building LFS the first few times can be hard, there is a lot to learn - but thinking that taking shortcuts will help is a recipe for disappointment. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
