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From: Kerin Millar <kerframil@fastmail.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook missing portage unpacking
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:43:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <543AA185.6090709@fastmail.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20141011T220307-988@post.gmane.org>

On 11/10/2014 21:13, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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?

It specifies that emerge-webrsync be used, automating the process of 
fetching and extracting a portage tarball.

--Kerin


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-12 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-11 20:13 [gentoo-user] Handbook missing portage unpacking James
2014-10-11 20:37 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-10-11 21:25   ` Daniel Frey
2014-10-12  7:32     ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2014-10-12 15:43 ` Kerin Millar [this message]
2014-10-12 16:41   ` Rich Freeman
2014-10-13  2:12     ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-10-13  2:28       ` Rich Freeman

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