From: <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] grub problem
Date: Mon Feb 5 11:55:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010205115433.D11231@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010205114217.A11667@cvs.gentoo.org>; from pete@gentoo.org on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:42:17AM -0700
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:42:17AM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> > Also, I am unable to decompress the stuff in the packages directory on
> > the CD as they seem to be corrupt. Did nobody else come across this? I
> > got the rc4_pre2 cd a couple of days after it was released. I hope I
> > was able to explain my situation. I will appreciate your help.
> The packages are all tbz2 files, which means they are compressed w/
> bzip2. You should use tar xjf rather than tar xzf to decompress them;
> if you're just trying to install the packages, use portage-merge
> <packagename>.tbz2 instead.
Actually, "pkgmerge" is the command he should be using. Maybe I need to update
the docs :/ :)
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
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2001-02-05 11:43 ` [gentoo-dev] grub problem Pete Gavin
2001-02-05 11:55 ` drobbins [this message]
2001-02-05 12:15 ` Abhishek Kumar
2001-02-05 11:53 ` drobbins
2001-02-05 12:10 ` Abhishek Kumar
2001-02-05 12:29 ` drobbins
2001-02-05 17:26 ` Bob Collins
2002-09-14 23:53 Burton Samograd
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