Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

["Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something about this is just not clicking with me.  I restored my backup to
> an empty directory, chrooted to that directory, ran quickpkg on some of the
> packages I've been trying to re-emerge, and was feeling good.  But...
>
> I got out of chroot, copied these to $PKGDIR (/usr/portage/packages) like
> the other packages there, and tried to emerge.  No joy.  Examples of
> what I tried:
> > treat Backups # emerge -v --usepkgonly =glib-1.2.10-r5
> > Calculating dependencies
> > !!! There are no packages available to satisfy: "=glib-1.2.10-r5"
> > !!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.

Did you copy the entire PKGDIR heirarchy?  It normally looks something like:

$PKGDIR/All/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2
...
$PKGDIR/dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2 -> ../All/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2

If you just copied the 'All' directory, without the symlinks, this
could account for the behavior you are seeing.

-Richard
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