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Bug 51612 - Ambiguous instructions
Summary: Ambiguous instructions
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook...
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 55159 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-05-20 21:13 UTC by Andrew Arnott
Modified: 2004-07-02 08:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Andrew Arnott 2004-05-20 21:13:59 UTC 
In Code Listing 4, this is the content:
# emerge sync
(In case you are unable to use rsync, use "emerge-webrsync" which
downloads and installs a portage snapshot for you)
# emerge-webrsync

It states "in case you are unable to use rsync".  At this point, we were never told to TRY rsync, whatever that is.  If it doesn't work, then try this next command, which is also listed in what looks like the normal flow, as if you should type it next, even if the first one worked.  So what's rsync?  And should I type the second command if the first worked?

- New Linux user.  Great site!
Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-02 07:59:07 UTC 
Fixed in CVS. Thanks for reporting!
Comment 2 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-02 08:02:27 UTC 
*** Bug 55159 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***