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. > > 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 refresh portage files and/or > > installed packages, I would > > appreciate it. A pointer to the right place in the docs would be > > fine, I just have not been > > able to find it, and have lost several days fighting with it > > already. > > > you could download a portage snapshot like you were doing a new > install, then copy it over /usr/portage. Hopefully when you say > you've corrupted portage you're referring to /usr/portage, and > not /var etc... > > Don't know if there are any dangers with this - I've never tried it. > > HTH, > -- > Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> > > Behind every great computer sits a skinny little geek.
"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. David P.S. For disaster protection, you might rename "/usr/portage" to "/usr/portage.save" as your first step. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
