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From: Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] broken python howto
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:44:44
Message-Id: 45BE4D48.1000707@ilievnet.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] broken python howto by Kent Fredric
1 Kent Fredric wrote:
2 >
3 > The Last time i had one of those problems I cracked out an old binpkg
4 > I had lying around ( a lesson I learned a while back on freebsd when i
5 > had make,gcc and tar ALL break due to a common lib dying : moral of
6 > the story: always have static copies of tar/make/bz2 in binpkgs :| )
7 >
8 > I know its a nasty solution, but in times of desperation, a manual
9 > untarring of a binpkg into the right place will save you much anguish.
10 >
11 > I've not read of any other way to save that problem, other than
12 > hacking up a recent "snapshot" and copying the files into place.
13 >
14 > I'm sure theres a better answer than this, but I've yet to see it.
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17 Thanks for the reply.
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19 Yes, I keep this solutions as my last resort before full reinstall. I
20 just didn't want to take rash course of action before asking for advice
21 here.
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25 Best regards,
26 Daniel
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