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 4.54) id 1F27wR-0006Q1-0l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:17:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0QEGsdf025732; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:16:54 GMT Received: from smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0QEEwEo022205 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:14:58 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id k0QEGD2A002870 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:16:15 -0500 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:12:42 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <200601250823.57320.vapier@gentoo.org> <43D7E33D.2020102@upb.de> <200601251617.34722.vapier@gentoo.org> <43D7FEC1.1070606@gentoo.org> <200601252251.k0PMpKZZ004307@gw.open-hosting.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-qJQMTlmmWj1rcHKP9Z2s" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:12:41 -0500 Message-Id: <1138284761.10589.54.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 2.4.2.1 X-Archives-Salt: 4d2d4889-5d0d-4f81-b597-a2093dd43712 X-Archives-Hash: 01a67671e7af8d42ed28c08c3e7a565a --=-qJQMTlmmWj1rcHKP9Z2s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 03:40 +0100, Sven K=C3=B6hler wrote: > Pretty much work for a beginnner! ...and? You're using a source-based distribution. It is not designed for the beginner insomuch as you have to perform maintenance tasks that would otherwise be unnecessary in a binary-only distribution. > And there's pretty much of experience needed. Yes, there is. There's also the ability to follow the directions given by ebuilds when they're merged. > Actually, the moment when there's an upgrade to glibc and gcc, than > there's no advantage in taking a stage3 - the whole "upgrading the > stage3"-thing will take as long as using a stage1. Not quite. > Why? because i have to upgrade glibc and gcc - and that is basically > what bootstrap.sh does too. ...and headers, and portage, and baselayout, and binutils, and texinfo, and zlib, and ncurses... Something else that *everybody* seems to be missing is that the *first* method in the GCC upgrading guide, which is the one that would apply from a fresh-installed system, seems to be completely overlooked by all the naysayers. Funny how if someone actually read the entire document, they'd see just how much of their own time they're wasting. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-qJQMTlmmWj1rcHKP9Z2s 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) iD8DBQBD2NjYkT4lNIS36YERAul8AJ9qN+6m2jL7i4D65JipafQINVCCsgCfdKTs kHl0DQfLWUFLHORkIz5I4Fw= =m9tS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-qJQMTlmmWj1rcHKP9Z2s-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list