From: Laurence Perkins <lperkins@openeye.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo chroot with old glibc
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 09:29:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7B9A9C2D-4764-45C7-9DB3-72D5BF370D4A@openeye.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5242903.IbC2pHGDlb@pinacolada>
On June 30, 2020 1:26:48 AM PDT, "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> That's what I did: I found a 2017 stage3 with a still older glibc and
>> managed to upgrade to a 2020 gentoo while masking the last glibc
>> versions. That was tricky because I had to git-checkout intermediate
>> versions of the portage tree in order to deal with the EAPI changes
>but
>> I have a working chroot now. Thanks.
>
>That's the easy way to do it, yes.
>
>The hard way is to treat this as a cross-compilation problem and
>bootstrap
>your own stages from scratch. Instructions would be a bit longer...
The medium way to do it is to use portage's ability to install packages to a different root directory. Which still has its caveats and challenges but generally avoids EAPI mismatches.
LMP
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-19 21:19 [gentoo-user] Gentoo chroot with old glibc Hervé Guillemet
2020-06-21 17:06 ` Michael
2020-06-21 19:43 ` Hervé Guillemet
2020-06-21 20:03 ` Michael
2020-06-21 22:52 ` Hervé Guillemet
2020-06-30 8:26 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2020-06-30 16:29 ` Laurence Perkins [this message]
2020-07-01 1:40 ` [gentoo-user] Grub: for the love of almighty Zardoz the magniicent Alan Grimes
2020-07-01 8:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-07-01 8:45 ` Michael
2020-07-02 4:20 ` Alan Grimes
2020-07-01 1:30 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo chroot with old glibc Thomas Mueller
[not found] ` <20200701013122.CE9C8E08AE@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2020-07-01 14:47 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2021-01-04 11:57 ` Thomas Mueller
[not found] ` <20210104115748.50A5EE0930@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2021-01-08 23:37 ` Andreas K. Hüttel
2020-06-21 21:08 ` Rich Freeman
2020-06-21 22:34 ` Hervé Guillemet
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