From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A803138247 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 055F1E0CB3; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:25:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-f169.google.com (mail-pd0-f169.google.com [209.85.192.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD0A4E0C2D for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:25:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f169.google.com with SMTP id w10so3572767pde.0 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:25:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YD+hLZg9vKnk0xM3+fjX03ffa/0l2nldVnoFnYg+agg=; b=r0fxpVeCwKvDw/IBhAzlPLNDJXR/5u1BNsSAeA2vzh73IChBENl3DjaD8D9jP9D6xj GGUCaYBV9hHbjEAYAF/jPhEXmrqwmIdlZGhY3YEIq2vCMErI4u7Yt1XD+/MFj6YXuNsr RbfXmV4YxFUw0ffCJXyvWxE3JpVY4C6ztlA+TIUMhqjbGIdwy/E2PjwebgBfLGIncld9 +78rwm1qJ6JqLqcR9c4PMdCGBstCLP1Y1OT7sux8/U47VQu+qddI66MEb+8Ce8dhEzYF Rl79ocsmm1oN5naklXvZAiGFxj6FZEfhsGAWCqcVwmrf6LcQ3Vxdsh+e55Ypi+97KeA8 Zvig== X-Received: by 10.68.103.37 with SMTP id ft5mr14050043pbb.92.1413062756689; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.247.60] (76-10-185-200.dsl.teksavvy.com. [76.10.185.200]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id oo8sm6915425pdb.86.2014.10.11.14.25.55 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5439A063.8090604@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:25:55 -0700 From: Daniel Frey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Handbook missing portage unpacking References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 127d5381-c153-4b83-a92c-d2524d6a1276 X-Archives-Hash: 840e2963255d23144628c1fefad383fe On 10/11/2014 01:37 PM, James wrote: > James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > >> I was just following the handbook for an amd64 install; I have >> not looked at the handbook in a while. I downloaded the stage3 >> tarball and the portage-latest tarball at the same time, like I always >> have done. The handbook give instructions for untaring the stage3, in >> section 5, but not the portage tarball, or did I miss something? > > Well I see the emerge --sync takes care of installing a new portage. > It's been a while; but I remember downloading a portage tarball and > uppacking it? > > Yes, the last couple of times I did a fresh install portage took care of installing it. I don't remember when this change actually happened though. >From memory (a very sketchy memory, I might add, so check before doing it) the command was: $ tar xvjf portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /usr/portage > oh well, we'll see. > > No need to reply.... > Meh, I noticed this a while ago but didn't think to mention it. The docs were already updated then. Dan