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Simply changing `ROOT` doesn't magically enable us to have `emerge` update our normal `ROOT=/`. There's extra steps here (the syncing, the bind mounting, etc) f

by codys 2y ago

Simply changing `ROOT` doesn't magically enable us to have `emerge` update our normal `ROOT=/`. There's extra steps here (the syncing, the bind mounting, etc) for the `emerge` with a custom `ROOT` to do an update to `/` itself. And that's if we have a `ROOT` that allows us to source dependencies (libraries to link against, includes, etc). Currently it's unclear to me how exactly `ROOT` works, probably meaning there needs to be a bit more documentation there and potentially indicating that it might not be used much right now.

aaronmdjones 2y ago
> There's extra steps here (the syncing, the bind mounting, etc) for the `emerge` with a custom `ROOT` to do an update to `/` itself. Those extra steps are handled by telling people what to do, in news items. This happened for example in the 17.1 -> 23.0 profile migration [1]; emerge wasn't updated to help people do this in any way whatsoever, users are expected to do everything themselves. This is the Gentoo way. > And that's if we had a `ROOT` that allowed us to source dependencies (libraries to link against, includes, etc). You don't need to source anything in ROOT because everything you're rebuilding is already in /. If you intended to build a program that depended upon a library you did not already have (in /), you're right, this wouldn't work. That isn't the case here. The dynamic linker (ld-linux.so or whatever you fancy, the ELF interpreter, the thing that runs before main(), the thing that will look at the list of dependent libraries, try to load them, and balk at any mismatches) isn't executed until the program is, and setting ROOT merely tells portage where to put them; it doesn't execute them. This I alluded to in the other comment thread about building a userland that your CPU can't even execute. [1] https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2024-03-22-new-23-profiles.html https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2024-03-22-new-23-...
- codys 2y ago
  Huh. If it's OK to have instructions like those for users to run through, then I guess I don't understand what's holding up switching to 64-bit time_t for gentoo. Seems like they could make a new profile and tell folks to deal with it. Perhaps I don't understand what the requirements are here, which might indicate that the requirements aren't clear for others too.

by codys 2y ago

aaronmdjones 2y ago

> There's extra steps here (the syncing, the bind mounting, etc) for the `emerge` with a custom `ROOT` to do an update to `/` itself. Those extra steps are handled by telling people what to do, in news items. This happened for example in the 17.1 -> 23.0 profile migration [1]; emerge wasn't updated to help people do this in any way whatsoever, users are expected to do everything themselves. This is the Gentoo way. > And that's if we had a `ROOT` that allowed us to source dependencies (libraries to link against, includes, etc). You don't need to source anything in ROOT because everything you're rebuilding is already in /. If you intended to build a program that depended upon a library you did not already have (in /), you're right, this wouldn't work. That isn't the case here. The dynamic linker (ld-linux.so or whatever you fancy, the ELF interpreter, the thing that runs before main(), the thing that will look at the list of dependent libraries, try to load them, and balk at any mismatches) isn't executed until the program is, and setting ROOT merely tells portage where to put them; it doesn't execute them. This I alluded to in the other comment thread about building a userland that your CPU can't even execute. [1] https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2024-03-22-new-23-profiles.html https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2024-03-22-new-23-...

codys 2y ago
Huh. If it's OK to have instructions like those for users to run through, then I guess I don't understand what's holding up switching to 64-bit time_t for gentoo. Seems like they could make a new profile and tell folks to deal with it. Perhaps I don't understand what the requirements are here, which might indicate that the requirements aren't clear for others too.