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From: Georgios Kylafas <gkyla@×××××××××.gr>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Quick and dirty system rescue (was: portage-2.0.45-r6 SERIOUSLY fucked up ?)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:22:26
Message-Id: 200212171723.35606.gkyla@mail.ntua.gr
1 On Tuesday 17 December 2002 17:12, Teo wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 17 December 2002 15:30, Georgios Kylafas wrote:
3 > > Furthermore, does anyone have any suggestions on how to recover from a
4 > > merging of that offensive portage-2.0.45-r6? My approach is to compile
5 > > (on another machine) glibc and gcc (with ebuild xxx.ebuild package) and
6 > > move it over to the broken machine.
7 > >
8 > > Giorgos
9 >
10 > Found a better way: mount a Gentoo cdrom, extract the stage3 somewhere,
11 > copy gcc to /usr/bin/, extract the portage-rescue package v2.44 (as in
12 > README.RESCUE), ebuild portage-2.0.45-r5.ebuild merge, DONE!
13 > Of course you'll need a little clean-up.
14
15 Thank you! Eventually, I didn't have to follow either of the solutions (I
16 found a compatible gcc binary from another machine), but I appreciate your
17 help.
18
19 Let's hope that few people will get eventually bitten by this bug (#12298).
20
21 Giorgos
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