Bug 312613

Summary:	Direcory is given wrong for portage snapshot
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Roman Gruber <roman.gruber>
Component:	Installation Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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

Steps to Reproduce:
Always to reproduce this bug.

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.