[ale] Gentoo Linux install question

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 9:51 AM
>
> Charles Marcus wrote:
>
> > Then I grab the latest portage tree "snapshot"
> >   wget http://www.gentoo.org/snapshots/portage-20020402.tar.bz2
> >
> > Then in /usr:
> >   tar -xjvf /path/to/snapshot/portage-20020402.tar.bz2
>
>
> This was the key, I'm wget'ing as we speak, thanks.  I'll
> keep you updated.
>
> One question, there were 3 snapshots in the directory, I got
> the latest.
>   Does this snap have to match the iso I got?

Not at all.  Another kewl thing about Gentoo.

Glad to hear its working!

One other thing to watch out for, in the days ahead.  Since it is still
fairly young as distros go, Portage is still changing a lot - lots of new
functionality (they're working on full reverse dependancy checking now,
among other things), but sometimes something breaks.  Usually not a bog
deal, and usually only if you do 'emerge -u world' a lot.

:)

Charles


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