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On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote: |
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> On Sunday 27 Mar 2011 12:57:23 AM Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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>> On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote: |
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>> > On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 06:54:29 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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>> >> I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files. |
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>> >> But emerge won't install it (again, just returns). |
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>> >> Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files? |
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>> > do you have qmerge installed? |
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>> > qmerge -K <package name> |
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>> No and eix qmerge doesn't show it. However, I was apparently bitten by |
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>> the same python problem as in the next thread. I have done |
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>> eselect python set 1 |
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>> and now revdep-rebuild is reinstalling 25 packages. |
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>> allan |
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> yea i thought as much after reading that thread. Anyways qmerge is part of |
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> portage-utils useful for mergeing bin pkgs when portage starts acting up. |
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I see. I though qmerge was its own package. I do indeed have |
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portage-utils and hence qmerge. But it looks as though *this time* I |
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won't need it. |
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thanks for the help. |
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allan |
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