From: "John J. Foster" <Gentoo-User@festus.festusandsimone.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:44:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080320124434.GB3338@gentoovm.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080320100554.483bdef8@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk>
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:05:54AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:05 -0600, John J. Foster wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> > Thanks so much Neil, option #1 worked just fine, followed by a
> > emerge -auvDN world
> > emerge --depclean
> > revdep-rebuild
>
> You should also re-emerge postage, so the package database is in sync
> with the files you have on your disk.
>
Done, thanks
festus
--
"I just want to break even."
Richard Manuel
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-17 1:22 [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage John J. Foster
2008-03-17 2:04 ` Chris Brennan
2008-03-17 6:13 ` Strong Cypher
2008-03-17 8:57 ` Emil Beinroth
2008-03-17 12:30 ` John J. Foster
2008-03-17 6:17 ` Dale
2008-03-18 2:31 ` John J. Foster
2008-03-18 8:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-20 1:51 ` John J. Foster
2008-03-20 10:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-20 12:44 ` John J. Foster [this message]
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