On Sat, 05 Jun 2021 02:09:32 -0400,
William Kenworthy wrote:
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>
> 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.
Exactly, it was a .bz2 file which I just copied everything from its
usr directory into /usr and that saved a certain portion of my
anatomy.
Also, the python was set to 3.9 even though I forced 3.8 in my package
.use -- I did set it back, but that by itself did not fix the problem.
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How do
you spend it?
John Covici wb2una
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