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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Usable platforms for prefix gentoo on Linux?
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:18:55
Message-Id: 20071201141843.GL24771@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Usable platforms for prefix gentoo on Linux? by Rabbe Fogelholm
1 On 18-11-2007 17:38:16 +0100, Rabbe Fogelholm wrote:
2 > I can now bring SUSE Enterprise Server 9, Service Pack 3 onto the "usable platforms"
3 > list. I was having great trouble with my machine at work, which is SLES 9 SP 3 with
4 > some customizations that I don't know the details of; some of it is documented in
5 > <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197413> (I have now given up on that
6 > particular machine).
7 >
8 > Two bootstrapping problems, <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197391> and
9 > <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199104>, seem to remain even for a cleanly
10 > installed SLES 9 SP 3 machine. The workaround for 197391 is a little bit awkward as
11 > it adds steps to the overall procedure. The workaround for 199104 may however be
12 > generally good for robustness; in the end wget gets rebuilt with default USE flags.
13
14 I merged both into the Linux bootstrap document, version 1.3. I hope
15 they don't break for others.
16
17 Thanks!
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21 Fabian Groffen
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