[gentoo-user] building your own stage3?

[gentoo-user] building your own stage3?

[Keith Dart]

Does anybody here know how a stage3 tarball is made? I'd like to mode
one myself.

-- Keith Dart

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Re: [gentoo-user] building your own stage3?

[Joshua Murphy]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Keith Dart <keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
> Does anybody here know how a stage3 tarball is made? I'd like to mode
> one myself.
>
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Your own.. from scratch, or merely a packaging of the changes you tend
to make to the base stage3 when you start a build? From scratch, I
believe the tool you're looking for is called catalyst (see link [1]
below). Otherwise, all a stage3 is... in the long run... is a tarred
up copy of a system without anything mounted (no proc, dev, sys, etc).
A common thing many people tend to do is oft referred to as a 'stage4'
(link [2]), in which they merely make all their changes, install their
choice software, and then archive the whole pristine build before
going on with actual use of the system.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/
[2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4

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Re: [gentoo-user] building your own stage3?

[Keith Dart]

=== On Mon, 12/14, Joshua Murphy wrote: ===
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/
> [2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4

===

Thanks! I think that stage4 is what I really want. 


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