[gentoo-dev] gentoo-ix86-1.1a.iso

[Georg Lippold]

Dear Gentoo-developer,

I am just trying to install gentoo-1.1a from the gentoo-ix86-1.1a.iso and
found some problems, that are not covered in your doc
(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html):
1. nano doesn't work in the remounted root-system because it cannot find its
shared library libslang.so.1, because it does not exist. Maybe you should
compile it static. This is however not a severe error, since I could use
another console (they had still the /dev/rd/0 filesystem as root) and run
nano from there.
2. really annoying is that you use busybox as a wget-emulation during the
initial /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh-process. busybox
however does not support the wget specific options "-t 5 --passive-ftp".
Where you set them is quite a mess to find out, I first tried in
/etc/make.defaults (FETCHCOMMAND & RESUMECOMMAND), but this file gets
overwritten during the bootstrap.sh-process. Then I set them in make.conf
and make.conf.build and modified the
/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh to definitely export the
FETCHCOMMAND (like in the lines where you export the proxy); then the
options were gone, but wget wouldn't download anyway... As a last resort, I
hoped that in /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/profiles/default/make.default setting
FETCHCOMMAND could fix it, but there I didn't succeed either.

I would really like to use gentoo and am fascinated by your cool
packaging-process (fuck rpm!!!). I hope that you can fix the described
errors,

Yours

George