On Thursday 27 August 2009 11:07:24 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 ?
You need to rebuild world from scratch :-)
Portage has now no way of knowing what you had. If emerge world does not work
for some reason, you will have to:
1. download a recent suitable stage tarball
2. Back up everything that tarball might want to overwrite
3. Unpack that tarball to /
4. Put critical files back that the stage overwrote
5. emerge world
You might also want to do all this in a chroot off a LiveCD
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