On Thursday 03 February 2005 22:18, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: > It's also possible to download the snapshot manually, but the > explanation is a little more than I care to dig up right now. You may > search the Gentoo Forum -> Portage & Programming for some good hints, > though.
This is the thread I was thinking of: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=242110 The snippet posted by irf2003, which I quote here, essentially does the same as emerge-webrsync: > #become root > su > #make sure you are in your home dir > cd $HOME > #grab the latest known good snapshot > wget http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/portage-20041023.tar.bz2 > #untar it > tar -xvjf portage-20041023.tar.bz2 -C /usr > #regenerate dependency cache > emerge --regen > #update portage cache > emerge --metadata You may safely skip the emerge --regen step. It takes forever, and shouldn't be neccessary unless your portage tree is truly borked. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/ -- [email protected] mailing list
