[gentoo-user] Re: unmerge boo_boo

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes:


> Well, com_err broken openssl which broke wget with "ssl" USE flag set.
> I forgot to mention that part. :)

> Disable "ssl" USE flag when you rebuild wget, then you can download
> everything else you need to rebuild. When you're done, you can rebuild
> wget with SSL and should probably do a revdep-rebuild to see if
> anyhing else got missed. If you don't have the current wget sources in
> distfiles, see if you have /any/ and try to rebuild the exact version,
> that way you don't need to download manually or copy from another PC.


I'm not having any luck with scp, or putting stuff on a usb stick
to copy onto the broken system. Maybe I should try http do download
wget?

In //usr/portage/net-misc/wget  I have:
-rw-r--r--   1 root 15793 Aug 16 12:09 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r--   1 root  4392 Aug 16 12:09 Manifest
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   176 Feb 16  2008 files
-rw-r--r--   1 root   165 Dec 30  2007 metadata.xml
-rw-r--r--   1 root  1851 Jan 28  2008 wget-1.10.2.ebuild
-rw-r--r--   1 root  1967 Feb 16  2008 wget-1.11-r1.ebuild
-rw-r--r--   1 root  1899 Jun 16 18:06 wget-1.11.1.ebuild
-rw-r--r--   1 root  1911 May  6 07:40 wget-1.11.2.ebuild
-rw-r--r--   1 root  1908 Aug 14 12:07 wget-1.11.3.ebuild
-rw-r--r--   1 root  1911 Aug 16 11:39 wget-1.11.4.ebuild
-rw-r--r--   1 root  1616 Oct 22  2007 wget-1.9.1-r5.ebuild



but no wget*.tar.bz2  in /usr/portage/distfiles/

It's late for me. I'm going to work on this tomorrow....
Ideas?