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From: Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 13:01:30
Message-Id: 2940901.CbtlEUcBR6@lenovo.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat. by Andrea Conti
1 On Friday, 20 August 2021 17:11:59 BST Andrea Conti wrote:
2
3 > >> This may help:
4 > >>
5 > >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Fixing_broken_portage
6 >
7 > It will not help in this case, since what's broken is python and not
8 > portage.
9 > > If that won't work for whatever reason, chroot into your system after you
10 > > boot with the latest Live-USB and try to update @system. Alternatively,
11 > > reinstall.
12 > Neither will this, as you won't be able to execute python (i.e. run portage)
13 > inside the chroot.
14
15 Right, my bad. I meant to write what Neil suggested - copy over binaries to
16 get whatever parts of your toolchain are broken working again - but didn't
17 obviously didn't write so. :-)
18
19 I can't recall coming come across this problem myself, probably because I tend
20 to leave emerge updates to finish, or resume from where I had stopped an
21 update. Is this a an error portage should be able to deal with itself when an
22 update is interrupted, then restarted?

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