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From: Maurice Johnson <maurice.e.johnson@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's broken with portage now?
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:00:04
Message-Id: 30f0165b0604231449r610e3ea4m9c15bb546fe141c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What's broken with portage now? by Mick
1 ok,
2
3 I have seen this befor. Try rebuilding the existing portage tree on
4 your system...
5
6 # emerge meta-data
7
8 Make note of ant errors.
9
10 ciao
11
12 On 4/23/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
13 > On 23/04/06, lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com <lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com> wrote:
14 >
15 > > To me that doesn't look like filesystem stuff. I think something murdered
16 > > your portage cache. I'd try and axe the whole thing (if possible) and
17 > > rebuild it all. Could take a long time, but it could work.
18 > >
19 > > Also, if those two packages aren't installed right now, it looks like all it's
20 > > complaining about is the absence of one line. You could possibly find a way
21 > > to hand-write the missing data, and see if that shuts it up.
22 >
23 > Unfortunately, its not just those two packages which I've quoted here
24 > as an example . . . it is every single package!
25 >
26 > If I were to delete something it has to be the lot. Which directory
27 > am I supposed to rm?
28 >
29 > Is it /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage perhaps?
30 > --
31 > Regards,
32 > Mick
33 >
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37 >
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