Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Too many problems with groupadd when creating stage3

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 20 October 2009 19:56:09 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 13:52 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 October 2009 13:50:40 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > or just fix catalyst
> >
> > erm, that's probably wrong.  catalyst does what it's told as directed by
> > the portage tree profiles.  so the profiles probably need tweaking to
> > produce a sane stage2.
>
> Tried it.  If you'd prefer, I can pull up the list of bugs where we hit
> this on nearly every release, but since a viable solution was never
> reached, I don't see how it would help.
>
> Our main "fix" was to not build stages for desktop profiles, or to use a
> complete stage3 tarball as input for another stage3, but that's equally
> as broken.
>
> I'd *gladly* fix catalyst to work around this, if I had a clue how to do
> so.  Hacking profiles ended up yielding nothing workable, just so
> everyone knows.

not sure why we're still even using this stage[123] system.  seems like 
catalyst could be implemented in all of three commands:
ROOT=/tmp/stage3_pre emerge system -e
chroot /tmp/stage3 env ROOT=/tmp/stage3 emerge system -e

then we wouldnt need these USE="build bootstrap" hacks nor would we need the 
packages.build cruft
-mike