Re: [gentoo-user] Epic list of total FAIL.

[Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net>]

Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> The ncurses ebuild is indeed broken, I ran into the same problem before.
>
> But you received good advice on your last thread (build libtinfo on another 
> system and copy it or just try symlinking it to ncurses), if you'd followed it 
> you would a got your system back up in a few minutes.

ppl seem to be antsy to hear what I actually did, so I'll respond....

1. I got my grubby mitts on a stage 3 tarball, I always keep one on hand
for this reason. =\

2. I grepped everything in /bin and /lib for tinfo and copied over from
the tarball where necessary.

3. Started --emptytree world.

4. waited.

5. kicked it each time it stopped,

6. kicked it some more.

7. kicked it a few more times.

8, got to the end of the list about two and a half days later (which is
par for my machine.)

9. published the results.

10. rebooted.

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