Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 18 August 2007 16:40:34 Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 02:21 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > `revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0`. And make sure it remerges > > both fontconfig and gtk+-2.x (amongst a lot of other stuff). If you have > > more problems with this

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 02:21 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > `revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0`. And make sure it remerges both > fontconfig and gtk+-2.x (amongst a lot of other stuff). If you have more > problems with this feel free to ask again. I think the -X is implied on the "ne

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 18 August 2007 01:27:50 Dennis Taylor wrote: > emerge -u world > ... > src/dxmain.c:654: warning: passing arg 3 of `gtk_signal_connect_full' > from incompatible pointer type > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ >ld: warning: libexpat.so.0, needed

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-17 Thread Dennis Taylor
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:22:40 -0400, David Relson wrote: "emerge --sync" updates the tree under /usr/portage using rsync. Therefore one can nuke /usr/portage and then "emerge --sync" will download a fresh copy of the tree. As the tree has many files, this will take a while.

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:22:40 -0400, David Relson wrote: > "emerge --sync" updates the tree under /usr/portage using rsync. > Therefore one can nuke /usr/portage and then "emerge --sync" will > download a fresh copy of the tree. As the tree has many files, this > will take a while. Which is why d

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-17 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:44:14 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 19:16 -0400, Dennis Taylor wrote: > > I have been trying to update a gentoo system that I had not touched > > for around a year. > > I managed to mangle some things, and the latest was a complaint > > about a file in p

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 19:16 -0400, Dennis Taylor wrote: > I have been trying to update a gentoo system that I had not touched for > around a year. > I managed to mangle some things, and the latest was a complaint about a > file in portage. > I removed to offender and tried to re-emerge portage, but

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 17 August 2007 01:16:31 Dennis Taylor wrote: > I have been trying to update a gentoo system that I had not touched for > around a year. > I managed to mangle some things, and the latest was a complaint about a > file in portage. > I removed to offender and tried to re-emerge portage, but

[gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-16 Thread Dennis Taylor
I have been trying to update a gentoo system that I had not touched for around a year. I managed to mangle some things, and the latest was a complaint about a file in portage. I removed to offender and tried to re-emerge portage, but I am still stuck. If anyone knows a way I could force it to ref