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Nick Rout wrote: |
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> I read your message and was surprised at this. Last time I read the |
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> handbooks the Handbook gave stage 1/2/3 options and the 2005.1 |
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> handbook stuck to stage 3. (Talking x86 here, I have never done an |
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> instal on other architectures). |
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> Now, like you, I read this in the Handbook: |
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> "Make sure you download a stage3 tarball - installations using a |
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> stage1 or stage2 tarball are not supported anymore." |
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> WTF? When did this happen? |
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About a week or two ago and was heavily discussed on gentoo-doc IIRC. |
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Here's a rough summary. |
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stage1 is the cause of a number of circular dependency issues, it takes |
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forever, the engineering and release team spends too much time on it, |
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and the average Gentoo users get no benefit from doing a stage1 over a |
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stage3. In order to get any benefit from stage1 you must edit the boot |
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strap scripts in some way. Editting the boot strap scripts is not |
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documented and not something general users should be mucking around in |
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so we're going to drop everything, but stage3 on the CD. |
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Or at least that was my interpretation. I stopped paying attention |
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around this point, but there was talk of keeping a stage1 for devs or |
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people who need it... though I don't think exactly what or where was |
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ever fully hashed out. |
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kashani |
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