Revision as of 22:17, 13 February 2011

Funtoo Linux can be downloaded at the following locations:

• osuosl.org - Primary US HTTP
• heanet.ie - Primary Europe HTTP

In most of directories, you will see stage tarball(s) as well as an openvz subdirectory. This subdirectory contains OpenVZ templates (virtual container images) that are built using the directory's stage3 tarball.

You will also notice that some build directories contain a stage1, stage2 and stage3 tarball, while others don't contain the stage1 or stage2. Here are the various permutations of what stages you may find in a build directory and what they mean:

Sometimes, you'll see a build directory and the only stage in it will be a stage3. In this case, we did not do a full rebuild of the stage, but instead used a special "freshen" build mode that simply updates an earlier stage in-place using a deep emerge update. This is a special Metro feature that we use periodically to make sure it still works :)

Also note that a Funtoo Portage snapshot repository are available - both stable and current Funtoo builds use the same Portage snapshots.

You use the Funtoo Portage snapshot tarball in the exact same way that you use a standard Gentoo Portage snapshot tarball - during the install process, you want to extract the contents to /usr (/mnt/gentoo/usr from the LiveCD) so that the /usr/portage directory is created. For .xz decompression, the -J or --use-compress-program=xz option may be required. If your LiveCD doesn't have xz available, then you'll need to get one that has xz available or download xz to the livecd.

Mirrors

1. Main US mirror: The Oregon State University Open Source Lab
2. Main EU mirror: HEAnet

Directory structure on mirrors

/
|
+-- funtoo-current --+-- snapshots
|                    +-- sparc-64bit
|                    +-- x86-32bit
|                    +-- x86-64bit
|
+-- funtoo-stable --+--....

The very first level of the tree is either 'funtoo-stable' or 'funtoo-current'. Each one of those directories offers several subdirectories corresponding to architectures supported by Funtoo (e.g. sparc-64bit, x86-32bit...) plus an additional subdirectory named snapshots which contains several (timestamped) recent archives of the Funtoo portage tree.

...-- x86-32bit --+--- i686 --+-- 2011-02-04
                  |           +-- 2011-02-08
                  |           +-- 2011-02-11
                  |
                  +--- pentium4 --+-- 2011-01-29
                                  +-- 2011-01-08
                  ...

Each top-level architecture directory contains several subdirectories corresponding to the CPU model in the architecture (e.g. pentium4 in the above example) called a "subarchitecture," each of which contains a number of subdirectories in YYYY-MM-DD format -- year in 4 digits, dash, month in 2 digits, dash, day of month in 2 digits. Every present subdirectory represent a build date for which the stages within were built for that subarchitecture. In those YYYY-MM-DD directories you will find the stages themselves:

...-- x86-32bit --+--- i686 --+-- 2011-02-11 --+-- stage1-i686-funtoo-current-2011-02-11.tar.xz
                                               +-- stage3-i686-funtoo-current-2011-02-11.tar.xz

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