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From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:agaffney@g.o] |
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> While the minimal and universal CDs *may( have a gutted gcc with minimal |
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> functionality, there is no /var/db/pkg, so you can't really use portage with it. |
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> You have 2 options for recovering from this: 1) find someone who has a recent |
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> gcc built with the same USE that you had and similar CFLAGS, or 2) reinstall. |
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Couldn't he unpack a stage3 tarball, chroot into it and do just enough updates to get gcc to the level he previously had?? Then quickpkg it and drop it into the munged system. |
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Or am I being terribly naive?? |
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Ralph Mitchell |