[ale] emerge sync -vs- emerge-webrsync in Gentoo

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I just did an "emerge-webrsync", and then checked the /usr/portage directory,
and it was empty.  I'm operating on the assumption that there should be
something in there.

nathan

Quoting "Nath

an J. Underwood" <lists at cybertechcafe.net>:

> I'm dipping into the Gentoo waters, and have an install started.  This is my
> 3rd
> attempt (don't ask) at the install, and I'm being a little more cautious
> this
> time.  Last time (earlier today), I got to the point of doing the
> scripts/bootstrap.sh, but found that there was nothing in the /usr/portage
> directory.  I remembered [then] that when I had originally unzipped the
> stage1
> tarball (the logic was, since I've never done it before, I'll start with the
> hardest.  The logic seemed more clear then), and did the emerg sync, that
> after
> 3 retries I got an error.  The error said that if I was behind a firewall, I
> may
> need to do an emerge-webrsync, so I did, and proceeded on.  Now, I've
> started
> the install over (the docs said that on a 1.2GHz box the bootstrap phase took
> 2
> hours, and I'm on a 300MHz box), and I'm at the emerge sync portion again.  
> 
> 
> My question is this:  Will the emerge-webrsync work [during the initial
> install], or do I need to do some firewall tinkerin' so that an emerge sync
> will
> work?
> 
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