* Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook missing portage unpacking
@ 2014-10-12 16:41 99% ` Rich Freeman
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From: Rich Freeman @ 2014-10-12 16:41 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Kerin Millar <kerframil@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
Correct. This is much more efficient than rsync when you're starting
from an empty tree, which was one of the reasons the old procedure
used to recommend using a portage tarball. emerge-webrsync works well
and is easier to use anyway.
--
Rich
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