Tag Archives: tar

Cleaning up extracted package contents

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Dennis

I hate it when I download a source archive, uncompress it, and find that instead of creating a package directory, with the contents of the archive, the archive was created with a bunch of files at the root directory. Suppose … Continue reading →

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Upgrading an OLD Gentoo Machine.

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Dennis

I’m in the process of re-installing a pretty old machine with the latest Gentoo. I’ve got a shared NFS directory with portage and all my machines are using a packages directory. After one machine builds something, another machine can simply … Continue reading →

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