On 6/2/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:00, Walter Dnes wrote: > > After a few long+slow stage 1 installs, I want to give up the macho > > act and do a stage 2 or 3 next time. Am I correct to assume that I can > > set up CFLAGS and USE, and start "emerge --system" and "emerge --world" > > later on when I'm going away for the weekend<g>? > > > > Also, I notice that CHOST is not supposed to be changed from i386 for > > a stage 2 or 3 install. Does that affect things later? > > Personally, I do a stage 3 install, then edit /etc/make.conf, then run > > emerge sync > > After I have the new portage tree, I then > > emerge --update --deep --newuse world > > I think I have essentially a stage 1 install without having to > re-compile working stuff that needs no changes. > > -- > Phil
This is basically what I understand also although I've been doing an --emptytree also just to ensure that absolutely everything is rebuilt. Probably that's over kill but complete. I actually wish the Stage 3 build could be simplified even a bit further. I wish it would install the Live-CD version (kernel and modules) to the hard drive and then allow me to reboot using that kernel. Then I'd update glibc, gcc, etc., build the first permanant kernel from the hard drive instead of from the CD and finally be ready to go. As it is I always feel I need to rebuild the kernel clean since I've updated gcc/glibc. I think this would be preferable to people who just want to get the machine up and running ASAP and deal with finishing the job later. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
