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 1Q3ajK-0002Oe-K8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:09:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9DE81C0A8; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B214B1C0A8 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:07:45 +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 p2QL7i3c021272 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:07:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 7F51370189; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:07:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz? References: <201103270030.51649.yohan.pereira@gmail.com> <201103270137.53170.yohan.pereira@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:07:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201103270137.53170.yohan.pereira@gmail.com> (Yohan Pereira's message of "Sun, 27 Mar 2011 01:37:53 +0530") 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: ae518ef86faf604302d85c57791d3f6b 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 >> >> 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