A little while back my server ran out of hard disk space (due to a failed hard drive) and as a result my local portage mirror got destroyed. Well, I fixed there server - initially by just grabbing a new copy of portage like a new install since it was just completely hosed, and the server is back up and working. However, now my desktop and laptop are both having problems. They sync just fine against the server, but I get a series of errors about not having various ebuilds in the manifest files - so many that I can't emerge anything (even portage).
Right now, my laptop is basically hosed - KDE/X won't work on login due to some errors. My desktop at least logs in to the KDE/X. However, on both systems I am having the manifest problem, and I can't edit files either since vim is screwed up due to a change in perl - and I can't run perl-clearner due to the emerge problem. I know both systems can be restored to being fully functional and up-to-date. The question is - how do I get there? I ran across some emails in the list archive on a similar issue - though that was only for 1 ebuild - and it was straight forward enough to fix by just rebuilding the manifest though 'ebuild' or something. I ran across another e-mail suggesting to just resync, and well - I tried that but it didn't work. So my question is - is there a way to automatically fix all these manifest things without having to track down each one by hand and run the 'ebuild' thing on each one individually? I'm completely out of ideas, and I'd really like to get these systems back to full functionality. TIA, Ben
