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 1MgXKd-0007yD-Pk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:15:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADF24E0AAF; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:24:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com (mail-bw0-f227.google.com [209.85.218.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB40E0AAF for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:24:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so885567bwz.34 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:24:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=nItfbJ0IvE8jvxR0XC6Say7ATAE6bx/xJl+Vr67wJnY=; b=ZolK20ZE2TJq473+YpE3hwfCmHkq1Zccrq/j2vdm1WmvA5zovmRasduPbhFzYxfMcg laGAnPMnBrjDpiSAtTVMoXUnslvTp3SsaUzZqcrfD4YwHhaxFZ77aHC82FWp6a2p8/T0 Ol84+ED3Lj8jj6Ee5edhKZbMr2x9nKmjaKYy4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=dNt5v3tSxCLNHstCku/C1zPTrrGHKb2RlE0JmQ/hRgB5c0t8VrKZd7OgBRz29H3d7n sISoe77lSU839pNI3Vs5jt1ZpvsB11fMQgwDh0zo6UFbcbpIZbUM5GfTnvuX80aTQmJW 9d+LnuFPcM5h3psLz/AVL7wocLtNeziOo+NMk= 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 Received: by 10.204.160.86 with SMTP id m22mr4644654bkx.82.1251368685592; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:24:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200908271202.19440.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <4A964CCC.5050602@gentooist.com> <200908271202.19440.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:24:45 +0200 Message-ID: <6e6572060908270324y5a2226f1v91e03e9ceaa1c03b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Micka=EBl_Bucas?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015175cac72fce0fb04721cf919 X-Archives-Salt: fce9ff2d-ed10-4412-9612-a3763e455e68 X-Archives-Hash: 7b9b3b78daee7b8c645b6fe1414692a8 --0015175cac72fce0fb04721cf919 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 2009/8/27 Alan McKinnon > 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 thi= s > > 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 > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > You may find some useful informations in /var/log/emerge.log : all lines containing ":::" show a succesful emerge. If you have kept the contents of this file since you installed your system, you could then get the list of all packages you have installed. It would be a start that you could cleanup afterwards. However, this will include syste= m packages and dependencies. And if you have uninstalled many packages (as with any update), they would also still be present in that list. Micka=EBl --0015175cac72fce0fb04721cf919 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

2009/8/27 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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 fi= x 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 wo= rk
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

--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com


You may find some useful informations in /var= /log/emerge.log : all lines containing ":::" show a succesful eme= rge.

If you have kept the contents of this file since you installed = your system, you could then get the list of all packages you have installed= . It would be a start that you could cleanup afterwards. However, this will= include system packages and dependencies. And if you have uninstalled many= packages (as with any update), they would also still be present in that li= st.

Micka=EBl

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