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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:29:57AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: |
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> > This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile |
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> > all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. |
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> You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy the |
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> portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed and |
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> working, you could use qlist or equery to generate a list of files to |
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> copy. |
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> Alternatively, as you are using VMs, begin a basic stage 3 install in a |
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> new VM, as far as being able to quickpkg portage, then unpack the tarball |
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> in the root of the broken VM. |
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Thanks so much Neil, option #1 worked just fine, followed by a |
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emerge -auvDN world |
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emerge --depclean |
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revdep-rebuild |
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I think what I did wrong in following the instuctions for repairing portage |
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as described at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml |
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was that I blindly just copied and pasted, thereby bringing in a way old |
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version. I'm not sure, though (probably more because of too much Patron). |
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But it didn't work. |
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Thanks so much for your help! |
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