Project Talk:Hardened musl/Bluedragon

Step 1. Instead of:

Should be:

Step 3.5. Before downloading and extracting the tarball image, it may be necessary to set the date and time.

Step 4. The instructions refer to a bz2 compressed archive, but it is actually xz:

It's a good idea to verify the signature of the DIGESTS file, then use the DIGESTS file to verify the integrity of the tarball:

Finally, it may be important to preserve the permissions of the extracted tarball contents:

Step 4.5. Before mounting and chrooting, it may be necessary to configure Portage.

The make.conf included in the tarball doesn't set, and has   or something. Is it just me or is this a crazy default?

It might also be a good idea to select a mirror and copy DNS info.

Step 5. The handbook instructs us to use  instead of , to use   when mounting , and doesn't mention mounting. Would it be better to update these instructions or just ignore the handbook?

Step 5.5. Install a recent Portage snapshot and update the @world set:

At this point, Portage will complain that there are unmerged config files, so you will need to do that:

Also, some USE flag changes are neccessary. If you manage to figure out what to do here, please update this article accordingly.


 * Hi, this is just a friendly reminder to sign your contributions to talk pages. :) --Maffblaster (talk) 19:36, 22 May 2016 (UTC)


 * You bet. --Astronome (talk) 01:36, 25 May 2016 (UTC)