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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] How do I recover from deleted gcc on U60
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:00:08
Message-Id: 44C1B0AB.7020202@gentoo.org
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-sparc] How do I recover from deleted gcc on U60 by "Longman
1 Longman, Bill wrote:
2 >> I stupidly menaged to unmerge gcc on my Ultra60. It is the
3 >> only one of my
4 >> Sparcs currently running Gentoo.
5 >>
6 >> How to recover without a total re-install?
7 >
8 > Hmmm....I suspect you might be able to find the package on the install CD.
9 > And you probably have a working gcc on the install CD. You might try
10 > --usepkg.
11 >
12 > I'm just guessing. Other minds will surely have better ideas.
13
14 While the minimal and universal CDs *may( have a gutted gcc with minimal
15 functionality, there is no /var/db/pkg, so you can't really use portage with it.
16
17 You have 2 options for recovering from this: 1) find someone who has a recent
18 gcc built with the same USE that you had and similar CFLAGS, or 2) reinstall.
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