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Bug 11823 - Portage User Guide needs serious updating
Summary: Portage User Guide needs serious updating
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Portage User Guide (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-12-09 01:45 UTC by Dave Powers
Modified: 2002-12-10 14:52 UTC (History)
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Description Dave Powers 2002-12-09 01:45:36 UTC
A quick thanks to the Gentoo teams for some really solid documentation. 
> The attention to detail is astounding.
> 
> With that said, I think the Portage User Guide is getting a little long
> in the tooth.  It starts off talking about "First, make a directory
> called /usr/portage. Then, make sure rsync is installed. If it isn't,
> download it from our ibiblio mirror and install it by typing emerge
> rsync-x.y.z.tbz2. Then, use the following command to synchronize your
> Portage directory:".  Of course, anyone that goes through the install
> process these days finds /usr/portage already created, and no need to
> install rsync.  As far as I know, the only thing you have to do is just
> "emerge rsync".
> 
> Later, there's old examples for emerging:
> emerge xchat-1.4.3.ebuild  
> 
> In the Upgrading packages section, I believe the standard way is now
> emerge -u to upgrade, but I could be wrong.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> -Dave
Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-12-10 14:52:18 UTC
fixed and upated to the site, thanks!
//ZhEN