[gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

[gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

[Allan Gottlieb]

Something went wrong (I was away from the screen) with a

   emerge --ignore --depclean --ask ; revdep-rebuild --
   --ignore-default-opts --ask

I meant to answer n to the depclean since I wasn't ready to unmerge
gentoo-sources, but perhaps I answered y (there were only three
other--non critical packages mentioned).

Anyway now emerge just returns immediately no matter what arguments it
is given.

I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files.
But emerge won't install it (again, just returns).

Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files?

thanks,
allan

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

[Yohan Pereira]

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On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 06:54:29 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files.
> But emerge won't install it (again, just returns).
> 
> Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files?

do you have qmerge installed?

qmerge -K <package name> 

-- 

- Yohan Pereira

"A man can do as he will, but not will as he will" - Schopenhauer

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

[Allan Gottlieb]

On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote:

> On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 06:54:29 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files.
>> But emerge won't install it (again, just returns).
>> 
>> Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files?
>
> do you have qmerge installed?
>
> qmerge -K <package name> 

No and eix qmerge doesn't show it.  However, I was apparently bitten by
the same python problem as in the next thread.  I have done

   eselect python set 1

and now revdep-rebuild is reinstalling 25 packages.

allan

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

[Yohan Pereira]

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On Sunday 27 Mar 2011 12:57:23 AM Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 06:54:29 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> >> I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files.
> >> But emerge won't install it (again, just returns).
> >> 
> >> Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files?
> > 
> > do you have qmerge installed?
> > 
> > qmerge -K <package name>
> 
> No and eix qmerge doesn't show it.  However, I was apparently bitten by
> the same python problem as in the next thread.  I have done
> 
>    eselect python set 1
> 
> and now revdep-rebuild is reinstalling 25 packages.
> 
> allan

yea i thought as much after reading that thread. Anyways qmerge is part of 
portage-utils useful for mergeing bin pkgs when portage starts acting up.

-- 

- Yohan Pereira

"A man can do as he will, but not will as he will" - Schopenhauer

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:24:29 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:

> I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files.
> But emerge won't install it (again, just returns).
> 
> Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files?

tar xf package-tbz -C /

Ignore the warnings about metadata, but re-emerge the package as soon as
you can to stop portage getting confused.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Remember that the Titanic was built by experts, and the Ark by a newbie

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

[Allan Gottlieb]

On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote:

> On Sunday 27 Mar 2011 12:57:23 AM Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote:
>> > On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 06:54:29 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> >> I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files.
>> >> But emerge won't install it (again, just returns).
>> >> 
>> >> Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files?
>> > 
>> > do you have qmerge installed?
>> > 
>> > qmerge -K <package name>
>> 
>> No and eix qmerge doesn't show it.  However, I was apparently bitten by
>> the same python problem as in the next thread.  I have done
>> 
>>    eselect python set 1
>> 
>> and now revdep-rebuild is reinstalling 25 packages.
>> 
>> allan
>
> yea i thought as much after reading that thread. Anyways qmerge is part of 
> portage-utils useful for mergeing bin pkgs when portage starts acting up.

I see.  I though qmerge was its own package.  I do indeed have
portage-utils and hence qmerge.  But it looks as though *this time* I
won't need it.

thanks for the help.
allan

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

[Allan Gottlieb]

On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:24:29 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
>> I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files.
>> But emerge won't install it (again, just returns).
>> 
>> Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files?
>
> tar xf package-tbz -C /
>
> Ignore the warnings about metadata, but re-emerge the package as soon as
> you can to stop portage getting confused.

That is what I hoped.  It does now seem that I was bitten by the python
update.  Having executed eselect python set 1 has help considerably.
When the current update world completes, I will try python-updater and
hopefully all will be well.

But thanks for the tip it is nice to know that I do have two
recourses (the untar and qmerge) in case emerge dies.

thank you all again.
allan