Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: John Davis <zhen@g.o>
To: kumba@g.o
Cc: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] catalyst generated make.conf
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:50:40
Message-Id: 1090601438.8606.7.camel@woot.uberdavis.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-releng] catalyst generated make.conf by Kumba
1 On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 12:47, Kumba wrote:
2 > I pointed this out back in 2004.1, but this still seems to not have been
3 > looked at. Catalyst should implant a full copy of make.conf from
4 > portage after it finishes building, that way the user has a make.conf w/
5 > all the comments available, not a generated one. Possible to get it
6 > fixed for 2004.3? A user at the ML below has already inquired about
7 > this on portage-dev.
8 >
9 > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/253
10 >
11
12 Portage inserts a /etc/make.conf.example that is fully commented. This
13 should be documented ... If not, the docs team needs to add a note.
14
15 >
16 > btw, catalyst stage2 generation still doesn't create a pkgcache w/o the
17 > following patch to bootstrap, which could use review by a bootstrap
18 > expert to make sure it doesn't trigger any issues with fetch (-f
19 > bootstrap.sh param).
20 >
21 > http://kumba.drachentekh.net/catalyst-bootstrapsh.patch
22 >
23 >
24 > --Kumba
25
26 Forward that patch to solar and rac. They are currently working on a
27 brand-new shiny bootstrap script that does it all :)
28
29 Cheers,
30 --
31 John Davis
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