Thanks for the reply, i'm trying to downgrade, from r2 to r1, and i get 
the error in my first email when attempting to do it w/ emerge.

b.

On Tuesday 01 July 2003 05:04 pm, Shawn wrote:
> From Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>         First, delete the distfile and try to re-emerge.  If no luck,
> do it
>         manually.
>
>         ebuild /path/to/ebuild unpack | tar -xjf <package> into
>         /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.48-r2/work
>         ebuild /path/to/ebuild compile
>         ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge
>
>         Or file a bug and wait for it to be fixed globally.  That
>         package is
>         hardmasked anyway isn't it?
>
> On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 18:47, bryce wrote:
> > OK, i got caught up in this little bug that has been passed around,
> > and now they want me to downgrade portage... and i would love to,
> > but i get
> >
> > this error when i try( and w/ some other packages as well):
> > >>> Unpacking source...
> > >>> Unpacking portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2 to
> >
> > /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.48-r1/wo
> > rk
> > Calculating dependencies  ...done!
> >
> > >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r1 to /
> > >>> md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2
> >
> >  (1 of 1) Compiling/Merging
> > (/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.0.48-r1.ebu
> > ild)tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >
> > bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
> > bzip2: Broken pipe
> >         Input file =
> > /usr/portage/distfiles/portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2, output fi
> > le = (stdout)
> >
> > !!! ERROR: sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r1 failed.
> > !!! Function unpack, Line 294, Exitcode 2
> > !!! failure unpacking portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2
> >
> > I tried whipping out the install cd, and doing it from in there,
> > but no luck, tried reemerging tar see if that helped, tried
> > remergin bzip2( and that just utterly failed).
> >
> > Any ideas???
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > bryce
> >
> >
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