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Fernando Rodriguez wrote: |
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> The ncurses ebuild is indeed broken, I ran into the same problem before. |
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> But you received good advice on your last thread (build libtinfo on another |
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> system and copy it or just try symlinking it to ncurses), if you'd followed it |
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> you would a got your system back up in a few minutes. |
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ppl seem to be antsy to hear what I actually did, so I'll respond.... |
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1. I got my grubby mitts on a stage 3 tarball, I always keep one on hand |
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for this reason. =\ |
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2. I grepped everything in /bin and /lib for tinfo and copied over from |
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the tarball where necessary. |
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3. Started --emptytree world. |
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4. waited. |
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5. kicked it each time it stopped, |
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6. kicked it some more. |
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7. kicked it a few more times. |
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8, got to the end of the list about two and a half days later (which is |
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par for my machine.) |
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9. published the results. |
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10. rebooted. |
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IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. |
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