Re: [gentoo-user] Stage tarballs

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Monday 16 April 2007, Jesús Guerrero <6thpink@×××××.es> wrote about 'Re: 
[gentoo-user] Stage tarballs':
> El Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:54:49 +0300
>
> "Stratos Psomadakis" <el05007@×××××××××.gr> escribió:
> > can anyone explain to me what are the differences between the stage
> > 1,2 and 3 installation tarballs?ç
>
> They are three different stages of the same thing. Stage1 is a tarball
> which contains a basic minimal C compiler.

And, unless a fix has been discovered and applied, stage1 tarball doesn't 
contain any information about what packages own what files, so starting 
from stage 1 will leave a minimal amount of cruft in /usr (?and /var?).

IIRC, I started from stage 1 on my first install (2004.3), but I wouldn't 
recommend anything other than stage 3 to anyone at this point, since 
there's now an established procedure for changing your CHOST if need be, 
and packages in system will eventually pick up any CFLAGS customizations 
gradually.

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