Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] stable keywords for bootstrapping

[Bacchella Fabrice]

Le 19 avr. 08 à 10:23, Fabian Groffen a écrit :
> Because bootstrapping is just the preparatory step to your Prefix
> installation, it need not to be bleeding edge, and preferably it just
>
> works, of course.  Keep in mind that the snapshots are used for the
> first `emerge system`, after that an emerge --sync is run and hence
> the life tree is used for the final `emerge -e system`.  The pre-sync
> stage is the trickiest part, since it heavily relies on a correct
> order
> of things, correct dependendies and working packages.  The post-sync
> stage is slightly less dramatic, since in principle the Prefix
> system is
> already functional at that stage.
>
> To aid the pre-sync stage, I am considering to switch to usign stable
> keywords for the system packages *only*.  That is, the bootstrap
> process
> is done with stable keywords, all other packages remain ~arch and
> hence
> a user has to add ~arch to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS after bootstrapping
> finishes.
>
> There is one thing that I don't quite like:
> switching from arch to ~arch means after `emerge -e system` nearly any
> system package needs to be updated, that is quite a shame
>
> So the alternative is to switch from arch to ~arch in the post-sync
> stage.  Thoughts here?
>
> Questioni is now how are we going to implement this, if we all agree
> this is the way to go?  Do we agree in the first place?

I think that's a good idea. In the last 2/3 weeks, I had too many  
problems with package upgrading while I was building.

I don't know if having to upgrade all system package is a big deal.  
For example, there is a lot of /usr/sfw/lib in RUNPATH left over for  
the solaris build. So a re-emerge is a good thing anyway. And there a  
lot of package to get after the boot strap, so it's going to be a long  
process anyway.

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