Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo chroot with old glibc

[Laurence Perkins]

On June 30, 2020 1:26:48 AM PDT, "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> 
wrote:
>> That's what I did: I found a 2017 stage3 with a still older glibc and
>> managed to upgrade to a 2020 gentoo while masking the last glibc
>> versions. That was tricky because I had to git-checkout intermediate
>> versions of the portage tree in order to deal with the EAPI changes
>but
>> I have a working chroot now. Thanks.
>
>That's the easy way to do it, yes.
>
>The hard way is to treat this as a cross-compilation problem and
>bootstrap 
>your own stages from scratch. Instructions would be a bit longer...


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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