On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Keith Dart <ke...@dartworks.biz> wrote: > Does anybody here know how a stage3 tarball is made? I'd like to mode > one myself. > > -- Keith Dart > > -- > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Keith Dart <ke...@dartworks.biz> > public key: ID: 19017044 > <http://www.dartworks.biz/> > =====================================================================
Your own.. from scratch, or merely a packaging of the changes you tend to make to the base stage3 when you start a build? From scratch, I believe the tool you're looking for is called catalyst (see link [1] below). Otherwise, all a stage3 is... in the long run... is a tarred up copy of a system without anything mounted (no proc, dev, sys, etc). A common thing many people tend to do is oft referred to as a 'stage4' (link [2]), in which they merely make all their changes, install their choice software, and then archive the whole pristine build before going on with actual use of the system. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ [2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4 -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
