Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:24:29 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
>> I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files.
>> But emerge won't install it (again, just returns).
>> 
>> Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files?
>
> tar xf package-tbz -C /
>
> Ignore the warnings about metadata, but re-emerge the package as soon as
> you can to stop portage getting confused.

That is what I hoped.  It does now seem that I was bitten by the python
update.  Having executed eselect python set 1 has help considerably.
When the current update world completes, I will try python-updater and
hopefully all will be well.

But thanks for the tip it is nice to know that I do have two
recourses (the untar and qmerge) in case emerge dies.

thank you all again.
allan