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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] re-bootstrap a running sytem
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:54:15
Message-Id: 20040110165413.GC24639@time
In Reply to: [gentoo-alpha] re-bootstrap a running sytem by Mathieu MILLET
1 Mathieu MILLET wrote: [Tue Jan 06 2004, 05:49:18PM EST]
2 > Is it possible to rebootstrap a running system by simply untarring the
3 > desired tarballs and running bootstrap.sh and emerge system|world again
4 > ? (Yes gcc from stage tarball works)
5
6 I believe that is possible, though I haven't tried it personally.
7
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9 Aron Griffis
10 Gentoo Linux Developer (alpha / ia64 / ruby / vim)
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