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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] chost setting for later stages
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:33:39
Message-Id: 47660A10.8060308@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-catalyst] chost setting for later stages by John Eckhart
1 John Eckhart wrote:
2 > I just upgraded from catalyst-2.0.4 to catalyst-2.0.5_pre6 and some of
3 > my existing build scripts broke. One of the scripts broke because chost
4 > is now only valid in stage1 and stage2 builds.
5 >
6 > This was introduced in svn ver 1237, the ChangeLog reads:
7 >
8 > 22 Aug 2007; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o
9 > <mailto:agaffney@g.o>>
10 >
11 > modules/generic_stage_target.py, modules/stage1_target.py
12 > modules/stage2_target.py
13 > 'chost' option is only valid in stage 1/2 specs. have catalyst error
14 > otherwise
15 >
16 > How do I chose what chost to build later stages? Is this always set by
17 > the stage2 chost? I was never changing it from stage2 on but previously
18 > it was always set in the spec file.
19
20 Setting chost in stage3.spec is a no-op. Catalyst doesn't do anything with it. I
21 added this error so people wouldn't think it was doing something that it wasn't.
22 It's a very bad idea to change CHOST between stage 2 and 3. If you think you
23 have a reason to do it, you're wrong :)
24
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26 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
27 Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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