Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: John Eckhart <jweckhart@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] chost setting for later stages
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:44:55
Message-Id: e532144c0712162144m2f22bcfbp8be7b6d28cd22b28@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] chost setting for later stages by Andrew Gaffney
1 Thanks for the clarification. Luckily I wasn't changing it, just
2 (redundantly) specifying it for each run of catalyst. Any chance you could
3 add a line in the generic spec stating exactly that?
4
5 On Dec 17, 2007 12:33 AM, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote:
6
7 > John Eckhart wrote:
8 > > I just upgraded from catalyst-2.0.4 to catalyst-2.0.5_pre6 and some of
9 > > my existing build scripts broke. One of the scripts broke because chost
10 > > is now only valid in stage1 and stage2 builds.
11 > >
12 > > This was introduced in svn ver 1237, the ChangeLog reads:
13 > >
14 > > 22 Aug 2007; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o
15 > > <mailto:agaffney@g.o>>
16 > >
17 > > modules/generic_stage_target.py, modules/stage1_target.py
18 > > modules/stage2_target.py
19 > > 'chost' option is only valid in stage 1/2 specs. have catalyst error
20 > > otherwise
21 > >
22 > > How do I chose what chost to build later stages? Is this always set by
23 > > the stage2 chost? I was never changing it from stage2 on but previously
24 > > it was always set in the spec file.
25 >
26 > Setting chost in stage3.spec is a no-op. Catalyst doesn't do anything with
27 > it. I
28 > added this error so people wouldn't think it was doing something that it
29 > wasn't.
30 > It's a very bad idea to change CHOST between stage 2 and 3. If you think
31 > you
32 > have a reason to do it, you're wrong :)
33 >
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35 > Andrew Gaffney
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