Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.17 fails and warning: setlocale: LC_ALL error

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

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On Thursday, July 17, 2014 06:52:20 AM J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On 16 July 2014 19:26:39 CEST, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Dark Templar wrote:
> >> When I reinstalled gcc and glibc, migrating from non-multilib amd64
> >
> >arch
> >
> >> to multilib one, I just unpacked gentoo stage3 into temporary
> >
> >directory,
> >
> >> chrooted there, made binary packages out of installed ones 
(quickpkg
> >> <name>), copied resulted binary packages and their metadata to 
host
> >> system (i.e. moved $chroot/usr/portage/packages into
> >> /usr/portage/packages) and installed those binary packages 
replacing
> >> current ones. It's fast (you don't have to build packages from
> >
> >scratch),
> >
> >> and it didn't fail me even once, although I heard playing with glibc
> >> such way may be dangerous (particularly, downgrading it). I guess it
> >> works for other purposes too.
> >> 
> >> I don't like installing from scratch if there is a way to fix it. I
> >> don't like that approach 'unpack stage on top of your system',
> >
> >because
> >
> >> it will lead to system pollution: a lot of files might be no longer
> >> tracked by package manager after that.
> >> 
> >> But that's just my experience and opinion. I hope it can help you.
> >
> >If I can install something as a binary and then get a clean emerge -e
> >system/world out of it, I think it would be OK.  Thing is, I'm
> >concerned
> >something is amiss with the stage3 tarball.  If that is the case, I
> >want
> >to inform the person that overseas that so it can be fixed.  Installing
> >Gentoo is hard enough for someone seasoned but would be a 
nightmare for
> >someone new to Gentoo.
> >
> >Now to figure out what is the root problem on this thing.
> >
> >Dale
> >
> >:-)  :-)
> 
> Dale.
> 
> I will try to use the x86 stage3 on a VM today. Will let you know how far I
> get.
> 
> --
> Joost

Update:
Using a 32bit VM with current x86 stage3 file, glibc builds succesfully. (On 
first run)

Will do a second " emerge -ve @system " when this one is finished.

I used the following stage file:
stage3-i686-20140708.tar.bz2

I have not change anything in /etc/portage

--
Joost

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