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2009/8/27 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> On Thursday 27 August 2009 11:07:24 Xavier Parizet wrote: |
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> > Hi everyone, |
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> > I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix this |
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> > without rebuilding world and system from scratch ? |
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> You need to rebuild world from scratch :-) |
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> Portage has now no way of knowing what you had. If emerge world does not |
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> work |
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> for some reason, you will have to: |
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> 1. download a recent suitable stage tarball |
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> 2. Back up everything that tarball might want to overwrite |
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> 3. Unpack that tarball to / |
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> 4. Put critical files back that the stage overwrote |
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> 5. emerge world |
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> You might also want to do all this in a chroot off a LiveCD |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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You may find some useful informations in /var/log/emerge.log : all lines |
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containing ":::" show a succesful emerge. |
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If you have kept the contents of this file since you installed your system, |
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you could then get the list of all packages you have installed. It would be |
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a start that you could cleanup afterwards. However, this will include system |
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packages and dependencies. And if you have uninstalled many packages (as |
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with any update), they would also still be present in that list. |
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Mickaël |
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