walt wrote: > On 07/16/2014 10:21 AM, Dale wrote: >> I'm beginning to wonder about >> those stage3 tarballs for x86. Do they test those from time to time to >> make sure they work or do they just autobuild them and upload them? I'm >> following the install guide so I'm pretty sure I'm not doing anything >> wrong but at the same time, I don't want to file a bug when it is just me. > Over the years I remember maybe three times I've had to untar a stage3 on > top of a "working" system, and IIRC the catastrophic problem was glibc each > time :/ > > Anyway, the first time I tried it I learned that the stage3 overwrites the > existing /etc directory. (That was so painful I remembered to move /etc out > of the way the next two times it did it :) > > I mention all this because /etc/locale.conf may not be the file you expect, > based on how your compile environment and chroot stuff is configured, etc. > > I been there/done that :) >
I haven't done this on top of a working system tho. The first tarball was a fresh install. The Gentoo that was there hadn't been updated in like 3 years or so. I wasn't about to jump in and try to update all that. The 2nd time, I just unpacked the tarball in /mnt/gentoo just like I would a fresh install just that it was in the first install. The locale.gen file was untouched from the tarball so it was the wrong file type when I downloaded it. No clue on that yet. Dale :-) :-)
