Bug 102735

Summary:	mkdir /etc/portage in handbook, but dir already exists
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Matthias Moelkner <admin>
Component:	Handbook	Assignee:	Xavier Neys (RETIRED) <neysx>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	docs-team
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6#doc_chap1_sect8
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matthias Moelkner 2005-08-16 11:05:14 UTC

Hi there,

in your installation guide on gentoo.org is a little bug. You should create a 
directory, whitch already exists, the directory /etc/portage. this error 
occours in capitle 6.
please take this line out from the installation guide!
thanks,

Matthias Moelkner,
DE 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-16 15:14:53 UTC

Not being sure whether all stages for all arches have the /etc/portage dir, I
have added the -p option to the mkdir to be on the safe side.
Thanks for reporting.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-08-16 15:28:14 UTC

no, /etc/portage does not always exist in all stages, so adding -p is the right
thing :)