Forgive me if this has been reported, this is my first time ever using bugzilla, and I did search for it. I was reading the X86 Quick install guide and continuously received an error when i tried to emerge gentoo-sources during the installation process. I finally found a forum post in the wild saying that this happened because the -C /mnt/gentoo/usr was left off of the unpacking portage step. I triple checked the "X86 quick install guide and there was no "-C /mnt/gentoo/usr" portion of the command. Example 1 -- showing the missing -C /mnt/gentoo/usr command found at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml Code Listing 2.15: Unpack the Portage snapshot livecd usr # time tar xjf portage* Example 2 -- showing the -C /mnt/gentoo/usr portion found at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5 Code Listing 11: Extracting the Portage snapshot # tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr Reproducible: Always
Look at code listing 2.14. You weren't asked to cd somewhere else, so you're still in /mnt/gentoo/usr, so you don't need to pass the -C option to tar. Thanks for your report anyway.
