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On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 07:00:28PM -0800, Sean Jensen_Grey wrote:
> I am *REALLY* new to gentoo linux but I just installed (from the rc4 pre iso
> image), and grabbed the portage tree with rsync then went into
> 
> 
> cd /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage
> ebuild portage-x.y.z.ebuild merge
> 
> and now I can't grab packages off of the cd...It looks like it wants all the
> packages in a two level heirarchy. <category_name>/<package_name>

I'm guessing that this is because you merged a 1.5_pre version of Portage that
is for testers only and uses a second-generation .tbz2 package format. You'll
need to use ebuild for now, or try to get back your older version of Portage.

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