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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook missing portage unpacking
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:32:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <94444924-7A30-4A69-942B-C772FF2FF1BD@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5439A063.8090604@gmail.com>


On Sat, 11 October 2014, at 10:25 pm, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com> wrote:
> … 
> 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

I'd have thought you'd download and unpack the portage-latest tarball using the emerge-webrsync command, and have no need to download or untar it manually.

Stroller.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-12  7:33 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     ` Stroller [this message]
2014-10-12 15:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Kerin Millar
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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