Hi!

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> after the latest errors with portage, I am reported only 108
>> installed packages --- on a system equiped with kde, gnome,
>> various tools, ... any idea how I can get a correct list of
>> installed packages? It should be a number near by 600!
>
> Did you do a 'rm -rf /var/db/pkg/*' or something?
Yes, I had to, since there where errors with nearly every package. "emerge 
-up --deep world" stopped immediately giving the advice to run 
"/usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.pl", which in tune told to delete various 
directories in "/var/db/pkg". After doing the expected: deleting the given 
directory, then re-emerging the package, the errors started showing up 
again... I didn't got happy with this way handling the errors!

After some discussion one expected to wipe out the whole directory 
"/var/db/pkg", re-emerging all packages. This made the errors vanish, but 
didn't restore the complete package-list. Now I am searching a way to 
restore the complete list from what is installed.

I am sure there must be a way using something like "find . -type f" 
producing a list of all files on the system, then generating a package 
list from this one.

> What errors with portage?
Various problems trying to "emerge -up --deep world".

-- 
Thomas


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