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 1JcK8M-0006ja-J3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:44:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9AC3E0667; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEEDBE0667 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69AFFD9544 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:44:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:44:36 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: uVXeNFod205ucQZjkXq5bWh6BMwnzoSAbd/ybqDciWZm 1206017075 Received: from localhost (unknown [72.54.98.13]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC224A29D for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:44:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:44:34 -0600 From: "John J. Foster" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage Message-ID: <20080320124434.GB3338@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> <20080320015105.GA3338@gentoovm.localdomain> <20080320100554.483bdef8@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="kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080320100554.483bdef8@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Representing the Mambo User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 61b00440-0bd2-48c3-8477-7cee4aa5c567 X-Archives-Hash: fe5b084d06b5a7a72ac16f2de33a4768 --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: >=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 > > Thanks so much Neil, option #1 worked just fine, followed by a > > emerge -auvDN world > > emerge --depclean > > revdep-rebuild >=20 > You should also re-emerge postage, so the package database is in sync > with the files you have on your disk. >=20 Done, thanks festus --=20 "I just want to break even." Richard Manuel --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH4lwy4FEnevDNLQ4RAh8pAJ90oPyXT1WkNk1SIqNADHqnEKsqZgCfalyc +Uhns7+4VZS3kHqAP1Zsy/g= =bivj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list