public inbox for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:51:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116348700.14290.32.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1116290915.10849.8.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1162 bytes --]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 20:48 -0400, Olivier Crête 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

[-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --]

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-17 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-15 21:18 [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) Mike Frysinger
2005-05-15 21:19 ` Tom Wesley
2005-05-15 21:21 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-05-15 21:24 ` Carlos Silva
2005-05-16 13:44   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-15 21:29 ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-05-15 22:32   ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-05-15 22:45     ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-05-15 22:48     ` Ryan
2005-05-15 23:29       ` Sami Samhuri
2005-05-15 23:41     ` david stanek
2005-05-16  0:22       ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-16  1:12       ` John Myers
2005-05-16  1:56         ` David Stanek
2005-05-16  2:24           ` David Stanek
2005-05-16 10:24           ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-05-16 11:20             ` Jan Kundrát
2005-05-16 13:38               ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-05-16 13:48                 ` Jan Kundrát
2005-05-16 11:33             ` [gentoo-dev] " Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2005-05-16 13:48               ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-05-15 21:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Olivier Crête
2005-05-16 13:57   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-16 22:11     ` Pete Ezzo
2005-05-17  0:48     ` Olivier Crête
2005-05-17 16:51       ` Chris Gianelloni [this message]
2005-05-17 17:33         ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-05-17 17:51           ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-24 21:11             ` [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) ro-overlays Jim Northrup
2005-05-24 21:48               ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-24 22:34                 ` Jim Northrup
2005-05-24 22:40                   ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-24 23:44                     ` Stuart Longland
2005-05-25 13:32               ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-25 16:50                 ` James Northrup
2005-05-16  4:07 ` [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) Sami Samhuri
2005-05-16  4:29   ` David Stanek
2005-05-16  7:09     ` Colin Kingsley
2005-05-16  8:48 ` Chris Bainbridge
2005-05-18  7:07 ` [gentoo-dev] " R Hill

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1116348700.14290.32.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net \
    --to=wolf31o2@gentoo.org \
    --cc=gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox