[gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?
Something went wrong (I was away from the screen) with a emerge --ignore --depclean --ask ; revdep-rebuild -- --ignore-default-opts --ask I meant to answer n to the depclean since I wasn't ready to unmerge gentoo-sources, but perhaps I answered y (there were only three other--non critical packages mentioned). Anyway now emerge just returns immediately no matter what arguments it is given. 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? thanks, allan
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?
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 -- - Yohan Pereira A man can do as he will, but not will as he will - Schopenhauer
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?
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
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?
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
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:24:29 -0400, 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? tar xf package-tbz -C / Ignore the warnings about metadata, but re-emerge the package as soon as you can to stop portage getting confused. -- Neil Bothwick Remember that the Titanic was built by experts, and the Ark by a newbie signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?
On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote: 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. I see. I though qmerge was its own package. I do indeed have portage-utils and hence qmerge. But it looks as though *this time* I won't need it. thanks for the help. allan
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?
On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:24:29 -0400, 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? tar xf package-tbz -C / Ignore the warnings about metadata, but re-emerge the package as soon as you can to stop portage getting confused. That is what I hoped. It does now seem that I was bitten by the python update. Having executed eselect python set 1 has help considerably. When the current update world completes, I will try python-updater and hopefully all will be well. But thanks for the tip it is nice to know that I do have two recourses (the untar and qmerge) in case emerge dies. thank you all again. allan
