Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge a binary package

Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:26:02 -0400, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
>
> > I would like to know the correct way to emerge a tbz2 file where I
> > wanted to go back to a version which worked and I had used a .9999
> > package, so I could not do it in .git (let me know if there is a way to
> > go back to a commit).  What I did was to go to / and extract the
> > archive, but that totally hosed my system, because the /usr/lib which is
> > normally a link to /usr/lib64 was replace with a directory and so I was
> > getting lots of libraries which could not be found although they were
> > there.  After discovering this and rebooting, etc. I solved the problem
> > by extracting to a temp directory and making sure bad things didn't
> > happen.  Now I can watch, but is there a correct way to do this?
>
> I had exactly the same problem with /lib being overwritten when I
> unpacked a tbz into /, it took a while to work out what was wrong.
>
> Although it gives warnings, emerge -1a /path/to/pkg.tbz usually works.

OK, thanks.  Is thea for ask?

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