Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage newbie needs help -- Please ignore the other one

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 07:39:12PM -0700, Dominic Leland wrote:

> Since the last time I tried this seemed to break my pkgmerge, I tried to
> merge some packages off of CDROM. Nope. I keep getting errors (something
> like "index out of range").
> 
> I'm really anxious to get my system up and running and upgradable. I like
> how the newer portage is recursive. Any help from the portage adepts is much
> appreciated.

The new pkgmerge is designed for our "generation two" .tbz2 format, and doesn't
work with the earlier .tbz2 packages included with Gentoo Linux 1.0_rc4_pre2.
This means that before upgrading Portage to 1.5, you should pkgmerge everything
you need from the rc4_pre2 CD first.  After that, you'll need to do this to
install an rc4_pre2 package:

# cat pkg.tbz2 | bzip2 -d | tar xpvf - -C /

pre/post inst/rm scripts won't be called when using this simplified install, but
most packages don't have them and all will be well.

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.