Xavier Parizet wrote: > Dale a écrit : > >> Xavier Parizet wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix this >>> without >>> rebuilding world and system from scratch ? >>> >>> Thanks a lot for your help. >>> >>> >>> >> I'm not sure but does emerge --metadata do this? You may want to man >> emerge and see if anything else can do what you want to. >> > > Emerge --metadata is just updating the portage cache from the /var/db/pkg to > speedup dependencies calculation... I was thinking about doing an emerge > --pretend --empty world with some kind of sed/awk to get a list of what would > normally be installed on my system, but circular dependencies kill the idea in > the egg... because actually, portage think that nothing is installed on my > system... > > Any other idea ? > > >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >>
I don't but I'd wait until some other guru that has ran into this problem comes along with a fix or advice on something to try. What happened anyway? Get a little happy with rm -rf or something? Dale :-) :-)
