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 1MgWkP-0007v1-Hq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:38:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03EE4E0AC8; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:47:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f175.google.com (mail-vw0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D297BE0AC8 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws5 with SMTP id 5so627523vws.32 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:47:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=cEtaNm3AQhnnbe8z5xnH+jvUBDGP147PZc8U/eJIZfA=; b=ESvIE12GLvGYNNSHBqHTPz5dYxLSeU1T5sbAjzkfBcvOlAbxKrImFmNjb4Qo7j2Bkg 2ztRUaFx3iG7bavo2Frffeyli/014APVPT809cZc/3VO6IjXZsc7epofzQmgaKVPsiXO 3qSOFVNg6ydXNfCPFLKVRW6701/EsmrfpEV/Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OH6ZyBRzBT3MZwHXDewDIAxcPOhnzu5h2d2kSpBaNkbBplMZyfeBVIKUV5JiSvavx4 ssV6+HRcU8NVG76J0ttWWEyDIN3X54YzNXsBVTyJqRCIeQW9G36bP1g6pL+2jWeJfCEY 3rITCr3vYnEZVVjiExtYkMxiXdTVXWMcfKPE4= Received: by 10.220.20.16 with SMTP id d16mr12565788vcb.16.1251366440546; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-227-48-128.jan.bellsouth.net [74.227.48.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm944755yxe.14.2009.08.27.02.47.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A965626.7020609@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:47:18 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090823 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db References: <4A964CCC.5050602@gentooist.com> <4A9650FE.90303@gmail.com> <4A965495.2010807@gentooist.com> In-Reply-To: <4A965495.2010807@gentooist.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b9adbffb-9728-4c76-84d1-05ccb9e199a3 X-Archives-Hash: 2c4d110b0808cf3f25d02f0ad022fe62 Xavier Parizet wrote: > Dale a =E9crit : > =20 >> Xavier Parizet wrote: >> =20 >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix t= his without >>> rebuilding world and system from scratch ? >>> >>> Thanks a lot for your help. >>> >>> =20 >>> =20 >> 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. >> =20 > > Emerge --metadata is just updating the portage cache from the /var/db/p= kg to > speedup dependencies calculation... I was thinking about doing an emerg= e > --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 ? > > =20 >> Dale >> >> :-) :-)=20 >> >> =20 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 :-) :-)