Bug 8874 – stage3 does not have a portage tree but install guide says it does.

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 8072
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Jeff Kowing 2002-10-07 20:12:24 UTC]

The 1.4 Installation guide:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html#doc_chap9

states that

The stage3 image now also includes complete linux sources and a Portage tree
snapshot, eliminating the need to do an emerge sync later.
...
The stage3 image now also includes complete linux sources and a Portage tree
snapshot, eliminating the need to do an emerge sync later. 

However, stage3-i686_pentium4-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2 I downloaded from ibibilio does
not contain a portage tree.  Same with kernel sources.  Thus, an emerge sync is
mandatory.  

So, either the documentation is wrong, or the portage tree is missing from the
stage3 tarball - at least for the one I downloaded.

Thanks,
Jeff Kowing

[Comment 1 Stoyan Zhekov (RETIRED) 2002-10-07 20:18:15 UTC]

I think this bug duplicate bug #8805

[Comment 2 Jeff Kowing 2002-10-07 20:39:39 UTC]

I am almost never successful with using the Bugzilla query mechanism.  Don't
know what my problem is!  

But it is important to note that bug #8805 does not mention that the entire
portage tree is missing.  Bug #8805 just talks about the missing kernel sources.
 I don't believe the kernel sources are part of the actual portage tree.

[Comment 3 Stoyan Zhekov (RETIRED) 2002-10-07 23:03:51 UTC]

Sorry, it was my mistake - the right duplicate is bug #8072. So we still don't
know how the 1.4 final will look like.

[Comment 4 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2002-10-07 23:05:14 UTC]

*** Bug 8072 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2002-10-08 10:01:54 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8072 ***