Changing tar command #6
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Hm , this is strange, because it never happened to me, and if what you are saying is right, I would expect it to happen all the time. Still, your change seems to be consistent with the tar man page recommended usage, so I'll pull it. I guess having some CI tests would really make things easier. Do you have any idea if one can get ravis or circleCI (or anything else) to install a Gentoo system? |
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This is a very good idea ! TravisCI or CircleCI could be of great help. I will try to see if it is possible to make use of the new "cloud" images available on http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage4-amd64-cloud/. |
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I talked to the infra team and @robbat2 said that docker is not officially supported. Those images are openstack (and EC2, though I have not tested this) compatible, but travis and circleCI use docker. So we would have to find a different solution. Please let me know if it turns out I am wrong. |
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Thank you for the update, I will see if I could contribute in some way (with colleagues from my lab or students). It could be very nice to have process to generate a simple docker image. |
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I think there are already some, but they are not “official”: https://hub.docker.com/u/gentoo/ . Tell me if you get any CI service provider to work with them. |
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@sylvchev what do docker images need that aren't in the normal stage3 images? |
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So, it seems what I talked about actually happened, and even this fairly minor syntax change broke the script. It's fixed now, but this should go to show that even for something like this we should have CI tests if we want people to be able to use the development version. @sylvchev have you found any time to look into this? |
I'm currently installing Gentoo on a new machine and I use your very nice script.
I was using a live USB based on Debian to install Gentoo and I ran into a problem with the order of the options: the tar command silently failed and did not take into account the exclude dirs. By changing the order of the options on the command line, everything went fine.