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On 10/11/2014 01:37 PM, James wrote: |
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> James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes: |
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>> I was just following the handbook for an amd64 install; I have |
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>> not looked at the handbook in a while. I downloaded the stage3 |
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>> tarball and the portage-latest tarball at the same time, like I always |
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>> have done. The handbook give instructions for untaring the stage3, in |
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>> section 5, but not the portage tarball, or did I miss something? |
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> Well I see the emerge --sync takes care of installing a new portage. |
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> It's been a while; but I remember downloading a portage tarball and |
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> uppacking it? |
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Yes, the last couple of times I did a fresh install portage took care of |
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installing it. I don't remember when this change actually happened though. |
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From memory (a very sketchy memory, I might add, so check before doing |
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it) the command was: |
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$ tar xvjf portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /usr/portage |
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> oh well, we'll see. |
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> No need to reply.... |
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Meh, I noticed this a while ago but didn't think to mention it. The docs |
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were already updated then. |
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Dan |
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