From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook missing portage unpacking
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 12:41:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_kCJBH6J6jTdz1qdwNpjWW4pKEJw+0PC2SK+VojHxcigw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <543AA185.6090709@fastmail.co.uk>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-12 16:41 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
2014-10-12 16:41 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2014-10-13 2:12 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-10-13 2:28 ` Rich Freeman
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