Group: linux.gentoo.user
From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:10 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

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On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:05 -0600, John J. Foster wrote:

> > 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.

> Thanks so much Neil, option #1 worked just fine, followed by a
> emerge -auvDN world
> emerge --depclean
> revdep-rebuild

You should also re-emerge postage, so the package database is in sync
with the files you have on your disk.


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Neil Bothwick

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