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Bug 178146 - Installer can't reuse previously fetched stage tarball
Summary: Installer can't reuse previously fetched stage tarball
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Installer
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Reported: 2007-05-12 05:00 UTC by Marius Mauch (RETIRED)
Modified: 2007-11-13 04:41 UTC (History)
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Description Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-12 05:00:24 UTC 
If an install is restarted after the stage tarball has already been fetched and unpacked one cannot simply point the installer at the existing tarball in /mnt/gentoo because in the restarted install as it tries to overwrite it with itself:

GLI: May 12 2007 06:51:59 - Error: `/mnt/gentoo/stage3-amd64-2007.0.tar.bz2` and
 `/mnt/gentoo/stage3-amd64-2007.0.tar.bz2` are the same file
Comment 1 Preston Cody (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-12 13:55:09 UTC 
this is a known issue.  restarting support is very primitive for this release and does not work very well in a lot of situations.  I will make a note to try and fix this for the next release.
Comment 2 Preston Cody (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-13 04:41:45 UTC 
This particular restarting issue will be fixed in 2007.1.