Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

[John J. Foster]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:05:54AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:05 -0600, John J. Foster wrote:
>
> > > You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy
> > > the portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed
> > > and working, you could use qlist or equery to generate a list of
> > > files to copy.
>
> > Thanks so much Neil, option #1 worked just fine, followed by a
> > emerge -auvDN world
> > emerge --depclean
> > revdep-rebuild
>
> You should also re-emerge postage, so the package database is in sync
> with the files you have on your disk.
>

Done, thanks

festus
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