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creaker l33t
Joined: 14 Jul 2012 Posts: 651
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:44 pm Post subject: [Solved] What should I do after stage4 installation? |
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I have recently installed Gentoo (4 days ago). I packed this installation as stage4.tar.bz2 and moved my system to other PC. After stage4 unpacking I installed grub2 from Arch liveUSB and successfully booted into cloned Gentoo. All works fine except some minor grub warnings.
So now my /usr/portage/distfiles directory is empty. How to populate this directory? Is it enough to just copy this directory from PC where stage4 was created? These files are only 4 days old. Or some other way?
Thanks.
Last edited by creaker on Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:26 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Section_8 l33t
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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/usr/portage/distfiles is just where the source tarballs are cached when you emerge packages - you don't have to keep anything there. It's a good idea to clean it up periodically or it will grow without bound over time. elclean (part of gentoolkit) is good for that. |
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creaker l33t
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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OK, thanks for explanation. |
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John R. Graham Administrator
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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What Section_8 said is correct, but you can save yourself (and your friendly neighborhood mirror) some bandwidth by copying that directory from your old system. Aggressive cleaning of /usr/portage/distfiles is discouraged for that reason (saving donated bandwidth).
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creaker l33t
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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Understood, thanks. |
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