And even more new stages...
Yes, even more fresh stages for amd64, i686 and x86 are available at http://www.funtoo.org/linux/. A new amd64 stage is building right now and will have a timestamp of 2007-12-10 when uploaded.
Barring any build issues from upstream, I plan to offer fresh Gentoo stages that are no more than a week old at http://www.funtoo.org/linux/, so the next time you need a fresh stage tarball, please give one of mine a try. It will save you quite a bit of "emerge -u world" time. And thanks :)
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Now that is a good idea :) For a lot of people this will really lower the compile time.
Which stages are you building only stage 3?
Thanks, Daniel !
your stage-tarballs are really appreciated !
they will definitely save a lot of rebuild time during (my) next install(s) :)
I think they will need some publicity in the future ^-^
Thanks for the stages.
Nice :) If my back-up fails I think I'll try one of these.
Could you explain the difference between your stages and those from gentoo?
Tonko, they are unmodified stable Gentoo stages, just recent builds. The x86 and i686 stages have been switched over to use the 2007.1 profile while the amd64 stages are still on the 2007.0 profile, which is the most recent in the portage tree at the moment.
I may add some enhancements in the future - will see.
Interesting :)
Hope that there will be some enhancements soon :)
Its sad that you have to do this instead of the release team; maybe I'm just becoming disenchanted.
Thanks Daniel.
I was just questioning whether I should install gentoo on my desktop again. This made my decision.
Glad to see your still involved in Gentoo. I still wish you were head of the gentoo project but I can understand your views.
Just a thought but maybe create a way for donations for your bandwidth and time for this?
Thanks Daniel, does this actualy means official forking of gentoo?
Daniel,
I'd love to see stages built using ~arch. Getting from stable to ~arch is the most annoying part of installation for those of us living on the edge.
Thank you!! just got a new laptop as an early x-mas present, these updated spins will save a great deal of compile time..
Are you going to fork gentoo? If so, more power to ya.
thank you, official release process is so SLOW, 2007.0 livecd\stage3 are almost useless now. I hope also for some enhancements. and yes, Im spamming your work everytime Im asked about where to start from gentoo installation ;)
Nice work... I think these files should be available on gentoo.org !
Great job!!!!
The stages worked like a charm.
Keep up the good work!!!
rullzer, I am building stage1, 2 and 3 as well as OpenVZ templates.
tonko, the difference between my stages is that they are more up-to-date. They are "stable" builds but are built using a current Portage tree. So if you download a stage3 called stage3-amd64-2007.12.27.tar.bz2, then this stage3 was built from the ground up using a Portage snapshot from 12/27/2007. This means that very little if anything will need to be updated when you type "emerge -u system"
wavex - I am able to provide these stages without the need for donations, but thank you for offering.
Purple - no, this isn't a fork of Gentoo. I am simply providing up-to-date stage tarballs as a service to the community.
dberkholz aka Donnie - I'll consider ~arch stages, however, right now I am leaning against it as I want to focus my efforts on stable builds of gentoo and ensuring that the stable packages are working well. But I'll keep considering it. Maybe I'll do it.
will they be added to the official gentoo "get gentoo" page?
Michael - these stages are a personal project of mine and aren't "officially" affiliated with Gentoo - they don't come from Gentoo's release engineering team that manages what is available on official Gentoo mirrors.
However, while these are my own personal builds, they are using an official Gentoo portage snapshot (no overlays) and are built using Gentoo's official distro build tool (catalyst.) So if you ignore the fact that they are being built by me personally and not by Gentoo's releng team, they're "official" in the sense that they are vanilla stable Gentoo builds using official trees and tools.
Hi, first of all thanks Daniel for your work :)
I would like to know if you can release a Gentoo 2007.1 LiveCD with a recent kernel ?
Because there a lot of peoples out there that cannot install Gentoo because of the old liveCD.
Thanks you again :)
Thanks Daniel.
I've been in the position of wanting to install Gentoo on my PC for a short while. I'm by no means a novice user but was encountering problems updating from the "current" amd64 stage3 tarballs.
The difference your contribution has made to my installation experience with Gentoo is vastly appreciated.
You just saved me at least a few hours of updating on my new (used) laptop, thank you :)
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