From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRrAI-0002mD-Ph for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:47:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F383E04A8; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:47:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from obsd.qrypto.org (unknown [78.130.142.84]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68CBDE04A8 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:47:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by obsd.qrypto.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55DD12C6E4 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:47:20 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:50:00 +0200 From: Rumen Yotov To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work ! Message-ID: <20080220155000.GA13408@qrypto.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <47BBE66A.6010603@free.fr> <200802201102.16905.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+QahgC5+KEYLbs62" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200802201102.16905.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 0fc4fab5-117f-44d3-86f9-f081428187f7 X-Archives-Hash: e165b40e0989b2acb6d3259df0a25f79 --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On (20/02/08 11:02) Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 20 February 2008, St=E9phane ANCELOT wrote: > > Hi, > > I made a silly mistake : > > emerge --unmerge python* > > > > now emerge does not work anymore since it needs python !!! > > > > Any idea ? > > Best Regards > > Steph >=20 > Oops. >=20 > An easy way is to get a quickpkg tarball of python from another machine= =20 > and unpack that to / >=20 > Or just untar the one on a recent install disk and re-install python. If= =20 > all else fails I could send you a copy of python-2.5.1-r5 which is=20 > about 8M large >=20 > For insurance, I keep quickpkg copies of critical stuff - python, gcc,=20 > glibc, portage - for just in case i make this same dumb mistake again=20 > myself >=20 > --=20 > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com >=20 > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list >=20 Hi, Install python manually (2.5.1) and later reemerge it using portage. Could also install a second manager (paludis) just in case :-) HTH. Rumen --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHvEwomLQDG8Qm4QURApP0AJkBkDwbIVPwnyKyahrrEsnfpcUsQwCggqHQ 3Ajx1jnCNZdvAL99WFgP3l4= =/h/C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list