Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Xavier Parizet wrote:
> Dale a écrit :
>   
>> 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 ?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for your help.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I'm not sure but does emerge --metadata do this?  You may want to man
>> emerge and see if anything else can do what you want to.
>>     
>
> Emerge --metadata is just updating the portage cache from the /var/db/pkg to
> speedup dependencies calculation... I was thinking about doing an emerge
> --pretend --empty world with some kind of sed/awk to get a list of what would
> normally be installed on my system, but circular dependencies kill the idea in
> the egg... because actually, portage think that nothing is installed on my system...
>
> Any other idea ?
>
>   
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-) 
>>
>>     

I don't but I'd wait until some other guru that has ran into this
problem comes along with a fix or advice on something to try.

What happened anyway?  Get a little happy with rm -rf or something?

Dale

:-)  :-)