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 1JRzta-0002WR-Km for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:06:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1680E0427; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:06:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bpd2mo2no.prod.shawcable.com (shawmail.shawcable.com [64.59.128.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B75E4E0427 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:06:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bpd2mi3no.prod.shawcable.com (bpd2mi3no-qfe3.prod.shawcable.com [10.0.184.122]) by bpd2mo2no.prod.shawcable.com (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JWK00FLYDQ2MGB0@bpd2mo2no.prod.shawcable.com> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:06:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from syscon2.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.148.196.55]) by bpd2mi3no.prod.shawcable.com (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JWK00HJADQ1CD70@bpd2mi3no.prod.shawcable.com> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:06:02 -0700 (MST) Received: by syscon2.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E7A112EAB7F; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:06:00 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:06:00 -0700 From: Joseph Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work ! In-reply-to: <200802201102.16905.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <20080221010600.GA22536@syscon2.inet> 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: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-disposition: inline References: <47BBE66A.6010603@free.fr> <200802201102.16905.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ede40ba5-2b88-47d1-a273-8d68f2ea0a08 X-Archives-Hash: 4689c84001da8ecb1fa4dd828d794084 On 02/20/08 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 > >Oops. > >An easy way is to get a quickpkg tarball of python from another machine=20 >and unpack that to / > >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 > >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 >Alan McKinnon >alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com I just made the same mistake, was running revdev-rebuild and an error sho= wed up regarding python block another=20 package, without much thinking I unmerged python :-/ How can I install it manually? Can I just copy python directory from from x86 machine to AMD64, if so wh= ich one do I need just to get the emerge=20 working? --=20 #Joseph --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list