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 new

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 feel

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 portage.

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

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 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 by

[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

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 I am

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 I