On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 20:48 -0400, Olivier CrÃte wrote: > I would tend to believe that the content of a stage1 or stage2 would be > enough and just for the majors architectures (those that have a > stage1).. Anyways people will rebuild said packages once that's done, > right? That's not much for the mirrors.. Around 168 megs for the content > of a stage1 or 300 megs for the stage2..
Honestly, a stage1 is not a good starting point. In fact, there should *never* be anything provided that is directly laid onto the live filesystem. A much better approach would be for there to be a rescue build, completely independent of the stages, since it doesn't need to mirror them in any way. It should be extracted (self-extracted?) to something like /rescue and executed from there, being completely self-contained. This keeps it from stomping on system files and breaking collision-protect or doing anything else nasty like hosing configuration files (ever made the mistake of extracting a stage onto a live filesystem?) when unpacked. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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