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