From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Eeb8f-0007GY-Pt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:37:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAMGaG7D028144; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:36:16 GMT Received: from smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAMGYB5k005299 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:34:12 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 jAMGYMdH029969 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:34:22 -0500 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:33:05 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20051122161515.GA26713@superlupo.rechner> References: <20051122144745.GR12982@mail.lieber.org> <20051122143743.GV5305@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it> <1132672444.27288.18.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <438338AE.1060501@gentoo.org> <1132674486.27288.24.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20051122161515.GA26713@superlupo.rechner> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-7Ezy34TyHj94MVDBxhmB" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:33:04 -0500 Message-Id: <1132677184.27288.40.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 2.4.1 X-Archives-Salt: a9aa9d04-9fcb-42a6-9ac9-23d2b2efe343 X-Archives-Hash: d47ebfb7d56150e5fd8274556498ad1b --=-7Ezy34TyHj94MVDBxhmB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 17:15 +0100, Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:48:06AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > > Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or s= tage2 > > > > tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball. >=20 > > > Answer: Download it in less than 10 minutes. >=20 > > I'd love to see you do the same with a stage1 tarball + all the > > distfiles you'll need to go from stage1 to stage3. >=20 > Assuming you keep all distfiles you already downloaded (which some > people do, like me). So you'd just need stage 1, nothing else. > Maybe that does not justify keeping stage1 (imho not even though=20 > it's useful for me), but it _is_ answering your intial question. ;-) Just because you downloaded them previously does not mean you didn't download them. > Btw, if i use stage 3 and then emerge -e world to recompile my whole > system with -omg-optimized i assume stage 3 may lose against stage 1 > and compiling -omg-optimized from the beginning. Not that it makes > much sense to do that though. *sigh* You have proven my point. Thank you. If you compile the same sources with the same settings, you get the same output. It doesn't matter if you started from a stage1, stage2, stage3, or stage4 tarball. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-7Ezy34TyHj94MVDBxhmB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDg0hAkT4lNIS36YERAuiqAKC4Wx4Lt/B1LBShNdtCuPhlxoa0qwCgwLF4 Grns1siio338uiY/rGzphLk= =9Wh9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7Ezy34TyHj94MVDBxhmB-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list