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Ahaha thanks Alan, very explanatory and funny email! |
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I won't say "gentoo is fast" anymore, I promise. :-) |
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As for the rest i'll just keep the i486 base and start from there since I |
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already compiled the kernel and stuff... |
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Thanks all |
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Il giorno 02/apr/2013 21:18, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> ha |
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scritto: |
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> On 02/04/2013 19:51, Davide Carnovale wrote: |
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> > Hi all gentoo people! |
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> > I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of |
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> > reinstalling it today. |
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> > While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is |
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> > available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in the |
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> > days, for being fast, as it was one of the first distro to support |
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> > i686... am i wrong with this? if not, why only i486 today? |
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> > apart from the reasons behind the decision of shipping only an i486 |
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> > stage 3, do you think it's worth the pain to recompile everything |
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> > (like the old stage1) for a different arch? i have an intel i5 |
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> > processor. |
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> You have been gone a while :-) |
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> These days we don't do the whole stage 1/2/3 thing while rebuilding the |
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> whole lot multiple times. |
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> Nowadays we just unpack a suitable stage 3 into a chroot, tweak CFLAGS, |
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> "emerge -e world", then emerge all the packages you use. |
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> The stage3 tarballs are normally quite out of date so you will rebuild |
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> the whole lot anyway asap. If your workstation is also your buildhost, |
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> the bests start for CFLAGS with a reasonably recent gcc is |
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> CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" |
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> and CHOST, as always, is something you should not be touching at all. |
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> IOW, as long as you start with the desired ABI (32 vs 64 bit) your first |
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> update is going to optimize and fix things anyway. So don't wprry about it. |
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> Oh, and "gentoo is fast" is a nono swear word these days. That's ricing |
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> :-) Nowadays we say the benefit of gentoo is USE so you get what *you* |
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> want :-) |
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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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