Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:06:02
Message-Id: 20080320100554.483bdef8@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage by "John J. Foster"
1 On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:05 -0600, John J. Foster wrote:
2
3 > > You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy
4 > > the portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed
5 > > and working, you could use qlist or equery to generate a list of
6 > > files to copy.
7
8 > Thanks so much Neil, option #1 worked just fine, followed by a
9 > emerge -auvDN world
10 > emerge --depclean
11 > revdep-rebuild
12
13 You should also re-emerge postage, so the package database is in sync
14 with the files you have on your disk.
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17 --
18 Neil Bothwick
19
20 Success is making it to the top of the food chain!

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