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Bug 312613 - Direcory is given wrong for portage snapshot
Summary: Direcory is given wrong for portage snapshot
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Docs Team
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Reported: 2010-04-01 13:31 UTC by Roman Gruber
Modified: 2010-04-01 18:51 UTC (History)
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Description Roman Gruber 2010-04-01 13:31:31 UTC
Hello,

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml

IS WRONG: livecd usr # time tar xjf portage-lat*

Should be: tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr

according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1

I am doing an installation at the moment, but my installation was fxxxxx up, by weired behaviour. So Today I try to do an installation again, and I checked in linux-mint the portage snapshot. The portage snapshot has a directory portage in it, and in this directory there is the portage ebuild files. I remember in the past, the portage snapshot has the directory structure /usr/portage, now its only /portage.

Its not a really big issue, because emerge --sync will fetch all ebuilds, when the portage snapshot is missing(or installed here in the wrong directory). But its really bad for the sync server because of the bandwidth.


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-04-01 18:51:32 UTC
Wrong. You must have missed the step that said to "cd" to "/mnt/gentoo/usr". This puts you in the location where the snapshot will be untarred. When run without any arguments, tar will unpack an archive to your current directory, no need to specify one with -C.

User issue, not a documentation bug. Closing.