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 1Q3amn-0002v1-M6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:12:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DEB61C03C; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EEEB1C03C for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4a59b202.dyn.optonline.net [74.89.178.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2QLAP74021932 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:10:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 355AE70189; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:10:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz? References: <20110326210213.6fbb60ca@digimed.co.uk> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:10:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110326210213.6fbb60ca@digimed.co.uk> (Neil Bothwick's message of "Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:02:13 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 25e6fff141066e92a6fa838aa5835375 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