From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:02:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908271202.19440.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A964CCC.5050602@gentooist.com>
On Thursday 27 August 2009 11:07:24 Xavier Parizet wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix this
> without rebuilding world and system from scratch ?
You need to rebuild world from scratch :-)
Portage has now no way of knowing what you had. If emerge world does not work
for some reason, you will have to:
1. download a recent suitable stage tarball
2. Back up everything that tarball might want to overwrite
3. Unpack that tarball to /
4. Put critical files back that the stage overwrote
5. emerge world
You might also want to do all this in a chroot off a LiveCD
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-27 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-27 9:07 [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db Xavier Parizet
2009-08-27 9:25 ` Dale
2009-08-27 9:40 ` Xavier Parizet
2009-08-27 9:47 ` Dale
2009-08-27 9:56 ` Xavier Parizet
2009-08-27 10:01 ` Dale
2009-08-27 10:14 ` Xavier Parizet
2009-08-27 10:02 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-08-27 10:15 ` Xavier Parizet
2009-08-27 10:24 ` Mickaël Bucas
2009-08-27 10:55 ` Xavier Parizet
2009-08-29 15:33 ` Alan McKinnon
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