On Tuesday 13 November 2007, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > Hello, > > After a successful upgrade from profile 2006.1 to 2007.0, I decided > to unmerge some unused packages from world and accidentally had glibc > on the emerge command line from a cut and paste operation. > > glibc was unmerged and now I can't use common shell commands such as > ls or cp to list and copy files from a backup. > > I am thinking that to fix this I will have to boot from a cd and > emerge glibc. > > Is there another way to do this?
Ouch. Easiest way I can think of is same idea as yours - to boot off a CD, chroot into your usual / and emerge glibc. If you have another gentoo machine handy with the same or higher version of glibc, you could quickpkg it there and simply unpack it into the chroot. It's a reasonably large binary, 12M on my system. alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
