Are you sure it isn't your email client that is broken? My email  
client threaded all of these messages properly.

I blew away my /usr/portage a few times too and asked for solutions,  
but I didn't get any I really liked. For now, I use this shell script  
to chroot. I have a few scripts that call this script, and if you  
press Ctrl-C while the script is running, you'll safely be kicked  
out, and if you run this script without parameters you'll get a  
command line that will clean up when you exit.


#!/bin/sh
#
# ./bin/chroot_devfs
#

function absname {
   if [ -d "$1" ] ; then   # Only a directory name.
     dir="$1"
     unset file
   elif [ -f "$1" ] ; then # Strip off and save the filename.
     dir=$(dirname "$1")
     file="/"$(basename "$1")
   else
     # The file did not exist.
     # Return null string as error.
     echo
     return 1
   fi

   # Change to the directory and display the absolute pathname.
   cd "$dir"  > /dev/null
   return=${PWD}${file}
}

absname $0
FULLPATH=$return
BASEDIR=`dirname $FULLPATH`/..

source ${BASEDIR}/etc/devel_env.conf

if [ -n "$1" ]
then
   CHROOT_CMD="$@"
#  shift
#  OPTS="$@"
   CMD="/bin/bash --login -c"
else
   CHROOT_CMD="-i"
   CMD="/bin/bash --login"
fi

echo ${CMD}

trap "umount ${DEVFS_PATH}/proc/ ; umount ${DEVFS_PATH}/usr/portage;  
exit" 2 3 15

mount --bind /proc ${DEVFS_PATH}/proc/
mount --bind /usr/portage ${DEVFS_PATH}/usr/portage

chroot ${DEVFS_PATH} ${CMD} "${CHROOT_CMD}"

umount ${DEVFS_PATH}/proc/
umount ${DEVFS_PATH}/usr/portage

# Reset the traps
trap '-' 2 3 15


On Jan 23, 2006, at 4:20 PM, solar wrote:

> Please stop creating a brand new thread for every post when it's  
> really
> a RE: to an existing thread. If it's your email client doing it then
> please install a functional one.
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:45 -0500, Dennis Taylor wrote:
>> Well, I blew that one.  I decided to start over just in case I had
>> missed something.  Unfortunately, I failed to umount portage before I
>> did rm -rf on the staging area.  Now, I do not have /usr/portage.   
>> Some
>> days are like that. :-(
>>
>> Does anyone know if it is possible to recover just portage without
>> starting all over?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Heath Holcomb [mailto:liquidcable@...]
>> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:32 PM
>> To: gentoo-embedded@g.o
>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
>>
>> I wrote the how-to.  I haven't built a system in several weeks, so
>> portage has changed a bit (and ebuilds).  I plan on updating the  
>> how-to
>> in a week or two, if I discover new problems (looks like there are
>> some).
>>
>> --
>> heath holcomb
>> liquidcable at bulah.com
>> www.bulah.com
>>
>> On Monday 23 January 2006 12:28, Dennis Taylor wrote:
>>> Having followed the other link to
>>> http://www.bulah.com/embedded-guide.html, which seems to be more  
>>> up to
>>
>>> date, am still having problems.  At step 3 I get the following
>> response.
>>>
>>> clwsapp07 root # ROOT=/embedded_rootfs emerge -K uclibc Calculating
>>> dependencies !!! There are no packages available to satisfy:  
>>> "uclibc"
>>> !!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.
>>>
>>> I thought all the previous steps went OK.  Even some of the
>>> workarounds seem to no longer be needed.  Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>
>>> From: Joshua ChaitinPollak [mailto:jpollak@...]
>>> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:16 AM
>>> To: gentoo-embedded@g.o
>>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
>>>
>>>
>>> This is what I use:
>>>
>>> http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html
>>>
>>> My installation is 6 mb, since I'm installing into 32 mb, I haven't
>>> tried too hard to pair it down. I'm installing on Soekris net4526
>>> boards. Keep in mind there are somethings you can do after you build
>>> you filesystem with Gentoo to make the install even smaller:
>>>
>>> Remove /usr/include
>>> Remove all .keep files
>>> Audit the rest of the file system for unnecessary files, expecially
>>> /etc and /var
>>>
>>> I have a series of scripts I've written to automate the process
>>> described in the above howto, and I would like to publish them
>>> shortly, but please don't hold your breath. :)
>>>
>>> -Josh
>>>
>>> On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Dennis Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 	I have tried various ways of building a root fs with uClibc, but
>> to
>>> no avail.  I have monitored this list long enough to know that  
>>> someone
>>
>>> out there has done it.  I need to do it for and X86 target that must
>>> fit in about 1.5 MB of flash that gets copied to RAM and started.
>>>
>>>
>>> 	The "out of the box" configuration I linked to from the uClibc
>> site
>>> fails in various ways.  I like the Gentoo way of doing things,  
>>> but the
>>
>>> HOWTO link I saved a while back does not work.
>>>
>>> 	Any pointers to documents that would help me succeed would be
>> greatly
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> 	Dennis Taylor
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
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> solar <solar@g.o>
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>

-- 
Joshua ChaitinPollak
Software Engineer
Kiva Systems


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