From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4HGppEk023222 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 16:51:52 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j4HGq26D020594 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 12:52:02 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 17 May 2005 12:51:41 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1116290915.10849.8.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> References: <200505151718.06501.vapier@gentoo.org> <1116192710.8413.6.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <1116251834.14448.77.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1116290915.10849.8.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-WUgShCIXMU5TO6bxMli9" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:51:40 -0400 Message-Id: <1116348700.14290.32.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 X-Archives-Salt: 76e49d22-945e-4743-b569-c42befc33dae X-Archives-Hash: 520420e0c25e88f1513cd141a2a9ada9 --=-WUgShCIXMU5TO6bxMli9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 20:48 -0400, Olivier Cr=C3=AAte 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. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-WUgShCIXMU5TO6bxMli9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCiiEckT4lNIS36YERAtF3AJ93jg2GA/p88MES1yG+XTTHCXGgSACgwoMy ydAehpolnhGla9HN74pJys0= =JxsY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-WUgShCIXMU5TO6bxMli9-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list