On 2020-08-24 17:24, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > How did you recover? You couldn't even use setup.py at that stage. > > Did you have to download the python distfile if you didn't have it > already, and build using configure and make directly?
You can find someone you trust with the same architecture and get a binary or quickpkg copy of the python package from them. Failing that, you can use the livecd or one of openstack VM images from gentoo.org to boot into a working system and create the binary package there.

