[gentoo-dev] Re: Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: we should really rename build to stage1, bootstrap to stage2, and then have catalyst add USE=stage3 during the stage3 step ... that would allow packages to automatically key off of the environment That sounds clean too. You could use install to make the transition

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?

2007-09-22 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 17:45 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: the compromise is simple: catalyst runs --config at the end of stage3 for appropriate packages, but as to what those things actually do is left in the ebuilds. I've already stated my preference for not doing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?

2007-09-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 08:01 +0100, Steve Long wrote: I've already stated my preference for not doing *anything* outside of merging packages in the stages. With respect, this is a little confusing. I didn't get past the learning curve for catalyst, but it's clearly not the same as simply

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?

2007-09-21 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 21 September 2007, Duncan wrote: Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:34:41 -0400: we know that someone taking a stage3 has never configured anything before and so we can safely put defaults into /root/. Just to

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?

2007-09-21 Thread Duncan
Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:16:49 -0400: On Friday 21 September 2007, Duncan wrote: Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:34:41 -0400: we know that someone

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?

2007-09-21 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 04:23 +, Duncan wrote: Just to point out... I've seen people mention overlaying a stage-3 on an existing installation for recovery reasons, generally broken gcc or (on amd64) switching back to multilib from 64-bit only profiles, so it /cannot/ be rightly assumed

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?

2007-09-20 Thread Duncan
John R. Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:18:46 -0400: But, hasn't anyone realized that bash is _broken_ if this file doesn't exist? Quoting from the upstream-provided man page, When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?

2007-09-20 Thread Duncan
Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:19:31 -0700: While I would normally agree, there's nothing wrong with having sensible defaults. After all, we install a bunch of stuff into /home/$user thanks to /etc/skel, so how is this

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?

2007-09-20 Thread Duncan
Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:34:41 -0400: we know that someone taking a stage3 has never configured anything before and so we can safely put defaults into /root/. Just to point out... I've seen people mention overlaying a