| 1 |
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 20:48 -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: |
| 2 |
> I would tend to believe that the content of a stage1 or stage2 would be |
| 3 |
> enough and just for the majors architectures (those that have a |
| 4 |
> stage1).. Anyways people will rebuild said packages once that's done, |
| 5 |
> right? That's not much for the mirrors.. Around 168 megs for the content |
| 6 |
> of a stage1 or 300 megs for the stage2.. |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
Honestly, a stage1 is not a good starting point. In fact, there should |
| 9 |
*never* be anything provided that is directly laid onto the live |
| 10 |
filesystem. |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
A much better approach would be for there to be a rescue build, |
| 13 |
completely independent of the stages, since it doesn't need to mirror |
| 14 |
them in any way. It should be extracted (self-extracted?) to something |
| 15 |
like /rescue and executed from there, being completely self-contained. |
| 16 |
This keeps it from stomping on system files and breaking |
| 17 |
collision-protect or doing anything else nasty like hosing configuration |
| 18 |
files (ever made the mistake of extracting a stage onto a live |
| 19 |
filesystem?) when unpacked. |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
-- |
| 22 |
Chris Gianelloni |
| 23 |
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
| 24 |
Games - Developer |
| 25 |
Gentoo Linux |
Archives