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 1EeJvP-0001vH-DQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:14:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jALMBPrV021857; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:11:25 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jALM1aq0028519 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:01:37 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 4so959846nzn for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:01:36 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=n/UXynQNRR2NsOuLoH0riebdm0H95FLXhBpTJJQYHkDiMcQTvC10ccc5NKuHYDSblKIOxx/BAkgafLwWWwweIRyPdxomUwzna7I2icHHhFyXSQoOiiuCX8wXaT/3fnoAcarv75pUC3iSkepiFcpPvq45w8WJnCPMD0/r+4T2IAM= Received: by 10.65.96.14 with SMTP id y14mr3673507qbl; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:01:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.135.11 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:01:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <64e8d2f20511211401l5209d32dy151aa8749ab81563@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:01:35 -0500 From: Ryan Sims To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default stage3 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jALM1aq0028519 X-Archives-Salt: bf4671d7-b37f-451c-9638-f6bd038f12c9 X-Archives-Hash: 69c1e4b5de028fee489ad6c1b4278226 > I installed gentoo on a dual Opteron box this weekend, I've always done > stage1 installs, but this time decided to try the recommeded stage3 method. > I understand the concept of doing an "emerge -e world" in order to get the > optimization of a stage1 install, and I've done this ( one time ) on the > install I just completed. Can sombody explain why it's necessary/desirable > to do this *twice*? > > What real difference does the second execution really make? > As I understand it, the first time you recompile new toolchain with your old toolchain, and then the 2nd time you're recompiling the toolchain with the new toolchain, with the idea that the new toolchain will compile/assemble/link/etc everything in a different way than the old toolchain. Please correct if I'm wrong. -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list