On 5/6/21 9:53 am, John Covici wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:39:25 -0400, > John Covici wrote: >> I have binary packages for lots of things, including portage if I need >> it, but no way to emerge any of them. >> >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > I have an update. I was able to get emerge to work again by unpacking > a binary package of portage into /usr/lib/python3.8 but if I try to > emerge portage again, I get that traceback again. Is portage 0.3.19 > broke? > Are the binary package files from an emerge buildpkg or quickpkg? - if so you can untar them in / to restore the files (do you have a buildpkg of 3.0.18 - stable version?). Its not a true install but this method has saved me a number of times from snafu's like this.
BillK
