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

2009-05-02 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: > > On 2 May 2009, at 03:55, Dale wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4#The_TAR_system >>> >>> >> >> I'm wanting to print this page, from the link above. Is it me or does >> some of the lines run off the edge of the margins and get lost? I have >>

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

2009-05-02 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: > > On 2 May 2009, at 03:55, Dale wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4#The_TAR_system >>> >>> >> >> I'm wanting to print this page, from the link above. Is it me or does >> some of the lines run off the edge of the margins and get lost? I have >>

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

2009-05-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 May 2009, at 03:55, Dale wrote: ... [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4#The_TAR_system I'm wanting to print this page, from the link above. Is it me or does some of the lines run off the edge of the margins and get lost? I have tried this in both Seamonkey and Konquer

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

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: > > I don't understand how this creates a stage4 of your system. > > How EXACTLY are you creating the stage4, please? What guide are you > following? > > When I have in the past created a backup stage4 (which I have to admit > I've never needed to test), I have used a stage4.exclude

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

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: > > On 1 May 2009, at 19:33, Dale wrote: >> Stroller wrote: >>> ... >>> I'm confusled. :/ >>> >>> Why do you update the stage 3, rather than simply creating the stage 4 >>> from your current functioning system? >> >> Well, that will be next on my list. I do make backups of my syste

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

2009-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2009, at 19:33, Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: ... I'm confusled. :/ Why do you update the stage 3, rather than simply creating the stage 4 from your current functioning system? Well, that will be next on my list. I do make backups of my system but having the stage4 would be fast

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

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: > > 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

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

2009-05-01 Thread 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,

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

2009-05-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stroller wrote: > On 1 May 2009, at 10:26, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > ... > > Does gnu tar really did copy star behavior and now allows to use -C > > in extract > > mode? > > Surely gtar should not emulate star's behaviour? Surely it is only > correct to emulate the behaviour of some original

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

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: > > On 30 Apr 2009, at 20:44, Dale wrote: > >> I try to keep a "up to date" stage 4 tarball here in my system just in >> case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted >> from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 >> there, then ch

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

2009-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2009, at 10:26, Joerg Schilling wrote: ... Does gnu tar really did copy star behavior and now allows to use -C in extract mode? Surely gtar should not emulate star's behaviour? Surely it is only correct to emulate the behaviour of some original Unix tar (without prefix, s- or g

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

2009-05-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:57 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ > > as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but > > suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is

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

2009-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 30 Apr 2009, at 20:44, Dale wrote: I try to keep a "up to date" stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in and create a stage 4 t

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

2009-05-01 Thread Dale
Daniel Troeder wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:44 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I try to keep a "up to date" stage 4 tarball here in my system just in >> case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted >> from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 >

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

2009-05-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:44 -0500, Dale wrote: > I try to keep a "up to date" stage 4 tarball here in my system just in > case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted > from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 > there, then chroot in and creat

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

2009-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:45:36 -0500, Dale wrote: > > The same way you change directory when you extract, with -C. > > > > tar cf archive.tar -C /mnt/gentoo . > Well, it don't like that here. I used your command and replaced with > the correct parts of course: > > r...@smoker / # tar cf /data/Gen

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

2009-04-30 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:57 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ >> as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but >> suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is

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

2009-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:57 -0500, Dale wrote: > How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ > as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but > suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is > done that way for the stage 3

[gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Dale
I try to keep a "up to date" stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in and create a stage 4 tarball. I have one weird thing tho that h