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Shouldn't portage offer some means to recover from a corrupted vdb? |
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I just stumbled upon |
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<http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-900382-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html> |
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and it seems really bad. |
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It would suck if the only solution to this is reinstall (I remember |
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package database becoming corrupted in some RPM-based distro I had years |
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ago and I hated it). |
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If the recovery is already possible, we should get a doc explaining what |
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to do. Otherwise it'd be really great to implement some recovery logic. |
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I think we can't salvage much from a corrupted db (anything can happen, |
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and the reporter mentions some code being present in the files), but at |
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least "emerge -e world" or equivalent should be possible. |
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