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 1Jc9vy-0000M5-9N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:51:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0A45E08E0; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809A1E08E0 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA56894914 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:51:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:51:07 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: H6JzFgC7dayxWSYuehNO7X6ZLztvP5hnjv2GTwqKAk6V 1205977866 Received: from localhost (unknown [72.54.98.13]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1053768D4 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:51:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:05 -0600 From: "John J. Foster" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage Message-ID: <20080320015105.GA3338@gentoovm.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20080317012241.GA1689@gentoovm.localdomain> <20080318023129.GA3286@gentoovm.localdomain> <20080318082957.4dc4a889@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> 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="u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080318082957.4dc4a889@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Representing the Mambo User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 48bbbb22-cf3a-4d35-a280-ddf7636c0a79 X-Archives-Hash: a7d4490bd67fda9f7452e523d851a093 --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:29:57AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: >=20 > > This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile > > all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. >=20 > You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy the > portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed and > working, you could use qlist or equery to generate a list of files to > copy. >=20 > Alternatively, as you are using VMs, begin a basic stage 3 install in a > new VM, as far as being able to quickpkg portage, then unpack the tarball > in the root of the broken VM. >=20 Thanks so much Neil, option #1 worked just fine, followed by a emerge -auvDN world emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild I think what I did wrong in following the instuctions for repairing portage= =20 as described at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml was that I blindly just copied and pasted, thereby bringing in a way old version. I'm not sure, though (probably more because of too much Patron). But it didn't work. Thanks so much for your help! festus --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH4cMI4FEnevDNLQ4RAppbAKCbwkv5DtacFj5mUNLGAoXxQ7/ddACeNoIz 47LCPaBAfKqufG4oKFSGsJ0= =40YH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list