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minus-squareDigit@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 days agoI just installed Gentoo in less than a dozen minutes (and with just one command). (… Though, a gentoo install is never “done”.) how in the... digit 20251229 tyson mx /home/digit % time sudo brl fetch -n timetoo gentoo [sudo] password for digit: [ 1/16 ( 6%)] Determining name * Using timetoo [ 2/16 ( 12%)] Determining CPU architecture * Using x86_64 [ 3/16 ( 18%)] Determining release * Using rolling [ 4/16 ( 25%)] Determining mirror * Checking bedrock.conf [brl-fetch-mirror] items [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% * Fast filtering 286 to top 10 [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% * Finding fastest mirror from 10 [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% * Using http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo [ 5/16 ( 31%)] Making bootstrap directory structure [ 6/16 ( 37%)] Finding bootstrap software group_flavor: amd64 openrc [ 7/16 ( 43%)] Downloading bootstrap software Looking for file matching: ^stage3-amd64-openrc-[^.]*[.]tar[.]\(xz\|bz2\)$ at: http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-openrc/ found: stage3-amd64-openrc-20251228T163057Z.tar.xz Downloading http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-openrc//stage3-amd64-openrc-20251228T163057Z.tar.xz.DIGESTS % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 1352 100 1352 0 0 4684 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 4694 Downloading http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-openrc//stage3-amd64-openrc-20251228T163057Z.tar.xz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 250M 100 250M 0 0 1376k 0 0:03:06 0:03:06 --:--:-- 1189k [ 8/16 ( 50%)] Preparing bootstrap software [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% [ 9/16 ( 56%)] Running bootstrap software [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% [10/16 ( 62%)] Configuring !!! Section 'gentoo' in repos.conf has location attribute set to nonexistent directory: '/var/db/repos/gentoo' !!! Invalid Repository Location (not a dir): '/var/db/repos/gentoo' * PGP verification method: gemato * Fetching most recent snapshot ... * Trying to retrieve 20251228 snapshot from http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo ... * Fetching file gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum ... /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum 100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 57 --.-KB/s in 0s 2025-12-29 17:07:38 URL:http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/snapshots/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum [57/57] -> "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum" [1] * Fetching file gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig ... /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig 100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 1000 --.-KB/s in 0s 2025-12-29 17:07:39 URL:http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/snapshots/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig [1000/1000] -> "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig" [1] * Fetching file gentoo-20251228.tar.xz ... /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz 100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 45.76M 1.35MB/s in 35s 2025-12-29 17:08:15 URL:http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/snapshots/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz [47983992/47983992] -> "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz" [1] * Checking digest ... * Checking signature with gemato ... [ INFO] Refreshing keys... [ INFO] Keys refreshed. [ INFO] File /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz verified successfully against the signature in /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig: [ INFO] - status: OpenPGPSignatureStatus.GOOD [ INFO] - valid: True, trusted: True [ INFO] - primary key: DCD05B71EAB94199527F44ACDB6B8C1F96D8BF6D [ INFO] - subkey: E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250 [ INFO] - timestamp: 2025-12-29 01:06:30 UTC * Getting snapshot timestamp ... * Extracting 'gentoo-20251228.tar.xz' ... * Using rsync to refresh '/var/db/repos/gentoo' ... Number of files: 155,780 (reg: 128,249, dir: 27,531) Number of created files: 155,779 (reg: 128,249, dir: 27,530) Number of deleted files: 0 Number of regular files transferred: 128,249 Total file size: 236.44M bytes Total transferred file size: 236.44M bytes Literal data: 236.44M bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 3.60M File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 120.70M Total bytes received: 2.56M sent 120.70M bytes received 2.56M bytes 7.47M bytes/sec total size is 236.44M speedup is 1.92 Performing Global Updates (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) * IMPORTANT: 18 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. [11/16 ( 68%)] Setting locale Found 1 locale declaration in '/etc/locale.gen'. Compiling 2 locales with 2 workers ... [1/2] Compiling locale: C.UTF-8 [2/2] Compiling locale: en_GB.UTF-8 Waiting for active workers to finish their jobs ... The location of the archive shall be '/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive'. Adding 2 locales to the locale archive ... Successfully installed an archive containing 2 locales, of 2.93 MiB in size. [12/16 ( 75%)] Cleaning up [13/16 ( 81%)] Importing users and groups [14/16 ( 87%)] Preparing symlinks [15/16 ( 93%)] Showing [16/16 (100%)] Enabling * Successfully fetched a new gentoo stratum with name timetoo ________________________________________________________ Executed in 683.06 secs fish external usr time 90.03 millis 1.33 millis 88.71 millis sys time 182.29 millis 0.55 millis 181.74 millis
I just installed Gentoo in less than a dozen minutes (and with just one command). (… Though, a gentoo install is never “done”.)
how in the...
digit 20251229 tyson mx /home/digit % time sudo brl fetch -n timetoo gentoo [sudo] password for digit: [ 1/16 ( 6%)] Determining name * Using timetoo [ 2/16 ( 12%)] Determining CPU architecture * Using x86_64 [ 3/16 ( 18%)] Determining release * Using rolling [ 4/16 ( 25%)] Determining mirror * Checking bedrock.conf [brl-fetch-mirror] items [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% * Fast filtering 286 to top 10 [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% * Finding fastest mirror from 10 [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% * Using http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo [ 5/16 ( 31%)] Making bootstrap directory structure [ 6/16 ( 37%)] Finding bootstrap software group_flavor: amd64 openrc [ 7/16 ( 43%)] Downloading bootstrap software Looking for file matching: ^stage3-amd64-openrc-[^.]*[.]tar[.]\(xz\|bz2\)$ at: http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-openrc/ found: stage3-amd64-openrc-20251228T163057Z.tar.xz Downloading http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-openrc//stage3-amd64-openrc-20251228T163057Z.tar.xz.DIGESTS % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 1352 100 1352 0 0 4684 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 4694 Downloading http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-openrc//stage3-amd64-openrc-20251228T163057Z.tar.xz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 250M 100 250M 0 0 1376k 0 0:03:06 0:03:06 --:--:-- 1189k [ 8/16 ( 50%)] Preparing bootstrap software [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% [ 9/16 ( 56%)] Running bootstrap software [\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\] 100% [10/16 ( 62%)] Configuring !!! Section 'gentoo' in repos.conf has location attribute set to nonexistent directory: '/var/db/repos/gentoo' !!! Invalid Repository Location (not a dir): '/var/db/repos/gentoo' * PGP verification method: gemato * Fetching most recent snapshot ... * Trying to retrieve 20251228 snapshot from http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo ... * Fetching file gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum ... /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum 100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 57 --.-KB/s in 0s 2025-12-29 17:07:38 URL:http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/snapshots/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum [57/57] -> "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum" [1] * Fetching file gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig ... /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig 100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 1000 --.-KB/s in 0s 2025-12-29 17:07:39 URL:http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/snapshots/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig [1000/1000] -> "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig" [1] * Fetching file gentoo-20251228.tar.xz ... /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz 100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 45.76M 1.35MB/s in 35s 2025-12-29 17:08:15 URL:http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/snapshots/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz [47983992/47983992] -> "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz" [1] * Checking digest ... * Checking signature with gemato ... [ INFO] Refreshing keys... [ INFO] Keys refreshed. [ INFO] File /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz verified successfully against the signature in /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig: [ INFO] - status: OpenPGPSignatureStatus.GOOD [ INFO] - valid: True, trusted: True [ INFO] - primary key: DCD05B71EAB94199527F44ACDB6B8C1F96D8BF6D [ INFO] - subkey: E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250 [ INFO] - timestamp: 2025-12-29 01:06:30 UTC * Getting snapshot timestamp ... * Extracting 'gentoo-20251228.tar.xz' ... * Using rsync to refresh '/var/db/repos/gentoo' ... Number of files: 155,780 (reg: 128,249, dir: 27,531) Number of created files: 155,779 (reg: 128,249, dir: 27,530) Number of deleted files: 0 Number of regular files transferred: 128,249 Total file size: 236.44M bytes Total transferred file size: 236.44M bytes Literal data: 236.44M bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 3.60M File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 120.70M Total bytes received: 2.56M sent 120.70M bytes received 2.56M bytes 7.47M bytes/sec total size is 236.44M speedup is 1.92 Performing Global Updates (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) * IMPORTANT: 18 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. [11/16 ( 68%)] Setting locale Found 1 locale declaration in '/etc/locale.gen'. Compiling 2 locales with 2 workers ... [1/2] Compiling locale: C.UTF-8 [2/2] Compiling locale: en_GB.UTF-8 Waiting for active workers to finish their jobs ... The location of the archive shall be '/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive'. Adding 2 locales to the locale archive ... Successfully installed an archive containing 2 locales, of 2.93 MiB in size. [12/16 ( 75%)] Cleaning up [13/16 ( 81%)] Importing users and groups [14/16 ( 87%)] Preparing symlinks [15/16 ( 93%)] Showing [16/16 (100%)] Enabling * Successfully fetched a new gentoo stratum with name timetoo ________________________________________________________ Executed in 683.06 secs fish external usr time 90.03 millis 1.33 millis 88.71 millis sys time 182.29 millis 0.55 millis 181.74 millis