[gentoo-user] how to emerge a binary package

[gentoo-user] how to emerge a binary package

[covici]

Hi.  I would like to know the correct way to emerge a tbz2 file where I
wanted to go back to a version which worked and I had used a .9999
package, so I could not do it in .git (let me know if there is a way to
go back to a commit).  What I did was to go to / and extract the
archive, but that totally hosed my system, because the /usr/lib which is
normally a link to /usr/lib64 was replace with a directory and so I was
getting lots of libraries which could not be found although they were
there.  After discovering this and rebooting, etc. I solved the problem
by extracting to a temp directory and making sure bad things didn't
happen.  Now I can watch, but is there a correct way to do this?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge a binary package

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:26:02 -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:

> I would like to know the correct way to emerge a tbz2 file where I
> wanted to go back to a version which worked and I had used a .9999
> package, so I could not do it in .git (let me know if there is a way to
> go back to a commit).  What I did was to go to / and extract the
> archive, but that totally hosed my system, because the /usr/lib which is
> normally a link to /usr/lib64 was replace with a directory and so I was
> getting lots of libraries which could not be found although they were
> there.  After discovering this and rebooting, etc. I solved the problem
> by extracting to a temp directory and making sure bad things didn't
> happen.  Now I can watch, but is there a correct way to do this?

I had exactly the same problem with /lib being overwritten when I
unpacked a tbz into /, it took a while to work out what was wrong.

Although it gives warnings, emerge -1a /path/to/pkg.tbz usually works.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I get enough exercise just pushing my luck.

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Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge a binary package

[covici]

Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:26:02 -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> 
> > I would like to know the correct way to emerge a tbz2 file where I
> > wanted to go back to a version which worked and I had used a .9999
> > package, so I could not do it in .git (let me know if there is a way to
> > go back to a commit).  What I did was to go to / and extract the
> > archive, but that totally hosed my system, because the /usr/lib which is
> > normally a link to /usr/lib64 was replace with a directory and so I was
> > getting lots of libraries which could not be found although they were
> > there.  After discovering this and rebooting, etc. I solved the problem
> > by extracting to a temp directory and making sure bad things didn't
> > happen.  Now I can watch, but is there a correct way to do this?
> 
> I had exactly the same problem with /lib being overwritten when I
> unpacked a tbz into /, it took a while to work out what was wrong.
> 
> Although it gives warnings, emerge -1a /path/to/pkg.tbz usually works.

OK, thanks.  Is thea for ask?

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         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge a binary package

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:17:04 -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:

> > Although it gives warnings, emerge -1a /path/to/pkg.tbz usually
> > works.  
> 
> OK, thanks.  Is thea for ask?

Yes.


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