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.

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