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On June 30, 2020 1:26:48 AM PDT, "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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>> That's what I did: I found a 2017 stage3 with a still older glibc and |
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>> managed to upgrade to a 2020 gentoo while masking the last glibc |
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>> versions. That was tricky because I had to git-checkout intermediate |
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>> versions of the portage tree in order to deal with the EAPI changes |
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>but |
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>> I have a working chroot now. Thanks. |
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>That's the easy way to do it, yes. |
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>The hard way is to treat this as a cross-compilation problem and |
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>bootstrap |
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>your own stages from scratch. Instructions would be a bit longer... |
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The medium way to do it is to use portage's ability to install packages to a different root directory. Which still has its caveats and challenges but generally avoids EAPI mismatches. |
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LMP |