From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R2UNn-0005hZ-HW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:42:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73BB821C145; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:42:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1ABED21C10F for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:40:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2011 20:40:32 -0000 Received: from p5B085BED.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO pc.localnet) [91.8.91.237] by mail.gmx.net (mp046) with SMTP; 10 Sep 2011 22:40:32 +0200 X-Authenticated: #13997268 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+9WDN1H9y9gDfMgZrOsY1urqda0aHMdQGpyU5+45 A/pEnfS5PcaZQf From: Michael Schreckenbauer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/db gone: possible opportunity to switch profile Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:40:37 +0200 Message-ID: <2838859.BLHVD18DA9@pc> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.1 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo; KDE/4.7.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 690575351afbc9bfcc19408ba3e0bff0 On Saturday, 10. September 2011 17:29:21 Francisco Ares wrote: > Well, --nodeps did no work, as portage claims that it is incompatible with > --emptytree , that it is forcing as there is no more /var/db Ok. Did not know, that portage forces emptytree in this situation. > I have also tried to include my gcc in /etc/package-provided , but still it > did not work Would have been my next suggestion... Sorry, I am out of ideas, at least for now. As Alan said, a new install, 64bit is imo the best you can do now. > Thanks > Francisco Best, Michael