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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 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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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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