Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-dev

From: David Chamberlain <daybird@g.o>
To: gentooppc-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentooppc-dev] how to recover from a hosed portage
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 15:53:56
Message-Id: 3CD7FD2D.90502@gentoo.org
1 How to rescue portage on ppc:
2 Learned by experience:
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4 1. Don't mess with portage-rescue in the portage tree
5 2. Get the new build tarball from sunsite
6 3. Unpack it in an empty directory
7 4. cp -Rd usr/lib/portage and usr/lib/python* from this to your filesystem
8 5. Disable sandboxing if necessary
9 6. Emerge portage
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11 Note: emerging portage should pull in python-fchksum and python first.
12 If emerge --pretend doesn't list them, emerge manually first.
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14 Now I wonder what broke it all in the first place...
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16 David