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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 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 bootstrap |
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> your own stages from scratch. Instructions would be a bit longer... |
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> Andreas K. Hüttel |
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I have looked through crossdev. Is that what it would take to cross-compile and bootstrap stages from scratch? |
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Could that be done from (instead of an old glibc) musl, uClibc, or FreeBSD or NetBSD? |
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Tom |