On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:29:57AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: > > > This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile > > all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. > > You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy the > portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed and > working, you could use qlist or equery to generate a list of files to > copy. > > Alternatively, as you are using VMs, begin a basic stage 3 install in a > new VM, as far as being able to quickpkg portage, then unpack the tarball > in the root of the broken VM. > Thanks so much Neil, option #1 worked just fine, followed by a emerge -auvDN world emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild
I think what I did wrong in following the instuctions for repairing portage as described at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml was that I blindly just copied and pasted, thereby bringing in a way old version. I'm not sure, though (probably more because of too much Patron). But it didn't work. Thanks so much for your help! festus
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