On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Kerin Millar <kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote: > On 11/10/2014 21:13, James wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> 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? > > > It specifies that emerge-webrsync be used, automating the process of > fetching and extracting a portage tarball.
Correct. This is much more efficient than rsync when you're starting from an empty tree, which was one of the reasons the old procedure used to recommend using a portage tarball. emerge-webrsync works well and is easier to use anyway. -- Rich
