Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

[Stroller]

On 1 May 2009, at 10:38, Dale wrote:
> ...
> Well, I do something like this.  Once every few months I extract that
> stage4 tarball to /mnt/gentoo.  I then mount my portage partition to
> /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage.  I then mount proc and chroot in.  Then I
> do a
> emerge -uvDN world to update everything, log out of the chroot and
> umount proc and portage.  Then I create a new tarball that has the
> date
> in the name.  I keep a couple of these stored on on my backups as
> well.


I'm confusled. :/

Why do you update the stage 3, rather than simply creating the stage 4  
from your current functioning system?

Stroller.