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On Wed, 05 May 2004 11:51:05 +1000, Jonathan Kelly |
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<jonkelly@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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Ah, |
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I just found the stages in the experimental directory, and they seem |
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to work. Currently running a build using stage1-alpha-20040314.tar.bz2 |
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I'll let you know if it works. Perhaps someone should consider |
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removine the 1.4-r1 stage as it is just a dead end. And perhaps |
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something pointing people to experimental. |
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Cheers. |
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Jonathan. |
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On Tue, 4 May 2004 08:17:00 -0400 , you wrote: |
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>Oh, it's active. It just slept late for the quarterly release. |
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>A strategy might be to start with an older release for installation and sync |
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>up to current afterwards. That may require extra compilation steps, though. |
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>I was going tell you to read the archives, but I don't know if this list has |
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>any. |
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>-----Original Message----- |
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>From: Jonathan Kelly [mailto:jonkelly@××××××××××××.au] |
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>Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:32 PM |
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>To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o |
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>Subject: [gentoo-alpha] Useable Stage1 for Alpah |
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>Hi there, |
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>I've been trying to resurrect some alpha boxen I have, and discover |
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>that the current gentoo stage1 doesn't work. It seems that portage |
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>changes under the bootstrap script and makes it barf, as well as an |
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>error message about SLOTMOVE confusing some things. I posted a message |
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>in the forums under Alternate Architectures. |
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>Luckily I had one box that was still running gentoo so I've updated |
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>that, after much mucking about. So now, I'd like to build a useable |
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>stage1, so started to look at catalyst, but it seems to be have a |
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>circular dependency like having a stage3 to start from, but I don't |
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>have a stage3 ... huh? |
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>If i tared up my complete working system and called that a stage3, |
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>would that work ... or anyone in the know who can give me pointers |
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>about getting a useable stage1. |
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>Also, gentoo-alpha seems to have dropped off ... is it still active |
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>... judging from the state of no useable stage1, it looks not ... or |
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>is there some reason for this and people are working to rectify the |
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>situation. I'm happy to help. |
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>Cheers, |
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>Jonathan. |
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