Re: [Glis-devel] Question regarding an error with 050-portage_tree.sh

[Nathaniel <na...@be...>]

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:35, Richard Scott wrote:
> Hi Nathaniel and Kevin,
> 
> I would like to volunteer to be a tester for the glis scripts.
Thanks!  Welcome aboard!

> I have been testing the current 0.1 BETA script by trying to install
> Gentoo from the x86-basic CD (x86-basic-1.4-20030911.iso) and I get the
> following error:
> 
> tar (child): /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-*.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such
> file or directory
> 
> This error is thrown up as there are no portage files on the basic CD. The
> config file that I used is below.
> 
> I'm guessing that the line needs to be changed from:
> 
> tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-*.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
> 
> to:
> 
> [ -d /mnt/cdrom/snapshots ] && tar -xvjf
> /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-*.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
Yes and no.  Its a little more complicated than that.  If the user wants a netless install, but doesn't have the portage snapshot, the install can't continue.  Anyway, this has all been cleaned up and is now in CVS.

Nathaniel