Bug 201870 – apparent inaccuracy on the "x86 quick install guide" vs the handbooks version "Installing the Gentoo Installation Files"

• Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Jeremy 2007-12-10 18:47:17 UTC]

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

[Comment 1 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) 2007-12-10 18:50:16 UTC]

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.