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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:28:50
Message-Id: yu962r5el7o.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz? by Yohan Pereira
1 On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote:
2
3 > On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 06:54:29 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote:
4 >> I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files.
5 >> But emerge won't install it (again, just returns).
6 >>
7 >> Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files?
8 >
9 > do you have qmerge installed?
10 >
11 > qmerge -K <package name>
12
13 No and eix qmerge doesn't show it. However, I was apparently bitten by
14 the same python problem as in the next thread. I have done
15
16 eselect python set 1
17
18 and now revdep-rebuild is reinstalling 25 packages.
19
20 allan

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz? Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@×××××.com>