[gentoo-user] rebuild /var/db/pkg

[gentoo-user] rebuild /var/db/pkg

[toki clover]

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Hello,

To make a long story short, I've lost db/pkg and I would like to rebuild.it
. I only found two vero old posts : one in the forum (from 2007 or
something) and another in the intertube by a lost gentoo user.

Anyone is aware of some new info about this?

Thanks in advance for this.

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Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /var/db/pkg

[Emanuele Rusconi]

Have you seen this already?
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57911

The last link is still working:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/scripts/regenpkgdb

-- Emanuele Rusconi

[gentoo-user] Re: rebuild /var/db/pkg

[toki clover]

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I forgot to add that I have all the tbz2 tarball with the sources files. I
made a little script to populate /var/db/pkg/cat/pkg, remain the specific
files related to each pkg.

I'm thinking of using ebuild helper with a little script which could
decompress the tbz2 to D and then make ebuild merge  again. I have the
portage tree of the lost db/pkg. So it's doable.

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[gentoo-user] Re: rebuild /var/db/pkg

[toki clover]

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Found: I just have to pass emerge -1 -O -gK $pkg and that's all!
Lets do something else while waiting emerge to finish...

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