I assume this would be the best place for posting the bugs I found when testing the new 20040117 stages: I started install from a Knoppix CD (since all 3 Gentoo Live-CD's I had laying around didn't like my laptop's pcmcia card), chrooted and started building. I started with a stage 2: Unpacking the tarball ends with: ./sbin/env-update.sh ./sbin/modules-update ./root/ ./root/.keep tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ...without showing any noticeable errors. I tried this twice on the new install, and once in /tmp on another running box, with same results. I decided to restart with stage1. It works great but I had some remarks: - mounting: handbook tells you to 'mkdir /mnt/gentoo/dev/', but this directory is already created (and filled) by the tarball (not sure whether the tarball or the handbook is erroneous). - make.conf: There's a typo in the default configuration: CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS" This should be CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" There are no default GENTOO_MIRRORS in the file, which is quite annoying when you're not using a LiveCD (i.e. you can't use mirrorselect to update them). It wold be very nice anyway when there was a full-fledged make.conf including all the comments and notes (just like in the default releases). The rest of the install gave me no troubles and my laptop is now running a 2.6.1 kernel on top of the install:)
1.) I cannot reproduce your bug regarding extraction of the stages. I tried on two different machines. Can you please provide your version of tar (i.e. output of "emerge -p tar"). 2.) The bug regarding the CXXFLAGS-setting is already known.
emerge -p tar shows on both machines current stable version: [ebuild R ] app-arch/tar-1.13.25-r3
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