On Sunday 27 Mar 2011 12:57:23 AM Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote: > > On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 06:54:29 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files. > >> But emerge won't install it (again, just returns). > >> > >> Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files? > > > > do you have qmerge installed? > > > > qmerge -K <package name> > > No and eix qmerge doesn't show it. However, I was apparently bitten by > the same python problem as in the next thread. I have done > > eselect python set 1 > > and now revdep-rebuild is reinstalling 25 packages. > > allan
yea i thought as much after reading that thread. Anyways qmerge is part of portage-utils useful for mergeing bin pkgs when portage starts acting up. -- - Yohan Pereira "A man can do as he will, but not will as he will" - Schopenhauer
