Bug 62065

Summary:	Manual slightly unclear about the bootstrap -f option
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Jason Rennie <jwrennie>
Component:	Gentoo Linux x86 Installation Guide	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jason Rennie 2004-08-28 17:18:53 UTC

I may just be being at total dunce, but when I went to bootstrap the system, I saw the -f option and thought, "Great! I can d/l the sources I need and not jam up my net connection d/ling each one over the next couple of hours", but of course bootstrap -f downloads all of the sources for everything (is that correct, it seemed to, I was tipped off after the fourth version of automake was downloaded). 

At anyrate, it might be worth noting that distinction in the manual, perhaps it is obvious and I just need more coffee. At any rate, hopefully I have not wasted your time with this, but it did bite me. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run bootstrap -f
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
It downloads everything, not just downloads everything I need for the current
stage. Which was not the anticipated result, but it  no doubt correct for the
script to do.

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-29 04:34:03 UTC

bootstrap -f fetches the sources that it needs, not for the entire installation but for the bootstrapping. The description in the GH is accurate.