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

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote:

> On Sunday 27 Mar 2011 12:57:23 AM Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote:
>> > On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 06:54:29 PM 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?
>> > 
>> > do you have qmerge installed?
>> > 
>> > qmerge -K <package name>
>> 
>> No and eix qmerge doesn't show it.  However, I was apparently bitten by
>> the same python problem as in the next thread.  I have done
>> 
>>    eselect python set 1
>> 
>> and now revdep-rebuild is reinstalling 25 packages.
>> 
>> allan
>
> yea i thought as much after reading that thread. Anyways qmerge is part of 
> portage-utils useful for mergeing bin pkgs when portage starts acting up.

I see.  I though qmerge was its own package.  I do indeed have
portage-utils and hence qmerge.  But it looks as though *this time* I
won't need it.

thanks for the help.
allan