[gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Stéphane ANCELOT]

Hi,
I made a silly mistake :
emerge --unmerge python*

now emerge does not work anymore since it needs python !!!

Any idea ?
Best Regards
Steph
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:35:54AM +0100, Stéphane ANCELOT wrote:
> I made a silly mistake :
> emerge --unmerge python*
> 
> now emerge does not work anymore since it needs python !!!
> 
> Any idea ?

If you install python "manually", emerge should start working. Then you
can emerge it and get back to normal.

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Stéphane 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 
and unpack that to /

Or just untar the one on a recent install disk and re-install python. If 
all else fails I could send you a copy of python-2.5.1-r5 which is 
about 8M large

For insurance, I keep quickpkg copies of critical stuff - python, gcc, 
glibc, portage - for just in case i make this same dumb mistake again 
myself

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Rumen Yotov]

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On (20/02/08 11:02) Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Stéphane 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 
> and unpack that to /
> 
> Or just untar the one on a recent install disk and re-install python. If 
> all else fails I could send you a copy of python-2.5.1-r5 which is 
> about 8M large
> 
> For insurance, I keep quickpkg copies of critical stuff - python, gcc, 
> glibc, portage - for just in case i make this same dumb mistake again 
> myself
> 
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> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
> 
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> 
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

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Joseph]

On 02/20/08 11:02, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Stéphane 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 
>and unpack that to /
>
>Or just untar the one on a recent install disk and re-install python. If 
>all else fails I could send you a copy of python-2.5.1-r5 which is 
>about 8M large
>
>For insurance, I keep quickpkg copies of critical stuff - python, gcc, 
>glibc, portage - for just in case i make this same dumb mistake again 
>myself
>
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>Alan McKinnon
>alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

I just made the same mistake, was running revdev-rebuild and an error showed up regarding python block another 
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 which one do I need just to get the emerge 
working?

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Joseph]

On 02/20/08 18:06, Joseph wrote:
> I just made the same mistake, was running revdev-rebuild and an error 
> showed up regarding python block another 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 
> which one do I need just to get the emerge working?

Here is the solution just in case somebody need it.
http://www.jonm.co.uk/Linux.html

Though the command:
./python emerge python 

should be (full path):
./python /usr/bin/emerge python 

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Joseph]

On 02/20/08 18:51, Joseph wrote:
> Here is the solution just in case somebody need it.
> http://www.jonm.co.uk/Linux.html
>
> Though the command:
> ./python emerge python 
> should be (full path):
> ./python /usr/bin/emerge python 
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> #Joseph

When trying to emerge "./python /usr/bin/emerge python"
I got an error:

./python /usr/bin/emerge python
Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6 to /
  * Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...                                                               
[ ok ]
  * python-gentoo-patches-2.4.4-r4.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...[ ok ]
  * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
  * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...[ ok ]
  * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...[ ok ]
  * checking Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 ;-) ...[ ok ]
  * checking python-gentoo-patches-2.4.4-r4.tar.bz2 ;-) ...[ ok ]
/usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory 

What is it looking for?

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 21 February 2008, Joseph wrote:
> On 02/20/08 11:02, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >Or just untar the one on a recent install disk and re-install
> > python. If all else fails I could send you a copy of
> > python-2.5.1-r5 which is about 8M large
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> I had python 2.4.4 installed on my AMD64 and I screw it up as well.
> Can you tar.gz and send me your python-2.5.1-r5 will it work, please.
> Do you have AMD64 or or different platform.

I have x86.

You can always use the tarball that comes off an appropriate installdisk 
though.


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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Henry Gebhardt]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Joseph <syscon@interbaun.com> wrote:
> (...)
>   * checking Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 ;-) ...[ ok ]
>   * checking python-gentoo-patches-2.4.4-r4.tar.bz2 ;-) ...[ ok ]
>  /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
>  /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
>  /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
>

/usr/bin/env is part of sys-apps/coreutils.

~Henry
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Matthias Guede]

2008/2/21, Joseph <syscon@interbaun.com>:

> When trying to emerge "./python /usr/bin/emerge python"
>  I got an error:
>
>
>  ./python /usr/bin/emerge python
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>  >>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...
>
>  >>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6 to /
>   * Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...
>  [ ok ]
>   * python-gentoo-patches-2.4.4-r4.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...[ ok ]
>   * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
>   * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...[ ok ]
>   * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...[ ok ]
>   * checking Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 ;-) ...[ ok ]
>   * checking python-gentoo-patches-2.4.4-r4.tar.bz2 ;-) ...[ ok ]
>  /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
>  /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
>  /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
>
>  What is it looking for?

Make sure your working directory is in the path:

PATH="${PATH}:./" ./python /usr/bin/emerge python
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Joseph]

On 02/21/08 13:05, Henry Gebhardt wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Joseph <syscon@interbaun.com> wrote:
>> (...)
>>   * checking Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 ;-) ...[ ok ]
>>   * checking python-gentoo-patches-2.4.4-r4.tar.bz2 ;-) ...[ ok ]
>>  /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
>>  /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
>>  /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
>>
>
>/usr/bin/env is part of sys-apps/coreutils.
>
>~Henry

Thanks for the input folks.
running 'which python' did not find any python so I had to add python to the path:
PATH=/usr/local/bin/:$PATH 

and of corse running:
./python /usr/bin/emerge python

This solved the puzzle, I got back python and emerge start working again.

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 21 February 2008, Joseph wrote:
> Thanks for the input folks.
> running 'which python' did not find any python so I had to add python
> to the path: PATH=/usr/local/bin/:$PATH

That directory should be in your PATH anyway. Add it and /usr/local/sbin 
as well in your .bashrc

Strange that it's not already there

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Eric Martin]

Matthias Guede wrote:
> Make sure your working directory is in the path:
>
> PATH="${PATH}:./" ./python /usr/bin/emerge python
>   

!!Big security hole!! ./ is purposely left out of the path so people 
can't sneak fake programs in there.

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 22 February 2008, Eric Martin wrote:
> Matthias Guede wrote:
> > Make sure your working directory is in the path:
> >
> > PATH="${PATH}:./" ./python /usr/bin/emerge python
>
> !!Big security hole!! ./ is purposely left out of the path so people
> can't sneak fake programs in there.
>
> ~eric

Very true but in this specific case it is superfluous.

With the sample command given, the PATH will not be searched at all as 
all executables are accessed via their directory path.

But you are correct with the warning. People do this solely and only 
because Windows does it and some folk are used to it. But WE all know 
that Windows is brain-dead :-)

Kids, don't try this at home and dream up false reasons to put . in your 
PATH

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