It all started like this: Using rsync I was getting an error when ever I used the `--stats' flag. The output said it was an error in the stack ... Rather than mess with it, I thought I might take the opportunity to sync portage and see if a newer rsync was available.
Its been a mnth or so since I synced. At the end of the sync I got the notice about emerging a new portage... so did so. But then when I attempted to emerg rsync I got some errors I'd never seen before: --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --------------------------- LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-14253.log" open_rd: /root/.bash_history open_rd: /root/.bash_history -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was shown there is absolutely all that is in the log and there are no others at that location. Looking at /root/.bash_history I saw nothing wrong. Its permissions were 600... but just incase I set it to 644 but it didn't help. Since these were (To me) unusual errors I thought maybe I should back out the portage update. Foolishly I ran emerge -vC portage before thinking about it much. I was deeply embroiled in some perl programming is my only excuse other than deep seated stupidity. But cutting to the chase: Now of course many of the portage tools were rm'ed before the emerge -vC failed here: [...] --- !empty dir /usr --- !empty dir /etc/portage --- !empty dir /etc/logrotate.d --- !empty dir /etc/env.d --- !empty dir /etc [portage-2.1.4_rc10] bash: /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: No such file or directory !!! FAILED postrm: 127 So very basic stuff is missing. emerge is one of the tools now missing I thought maybe I could download portage and compile it manually but it appears not to really be made to be used like that. At least looking in the unpacked top level directory I don't see the familiar signs of a gnu sources package like ./configure and such. It does have a ready made emerge at ./bin/emerge but running it seems to indicate it is looking in the wrong places for stuff and isn't going to be usefull without some more skilled technician than me. What are my choices here... is the only one to use the livecd and emerge portage from there? Or is there such a thing as a sources package of portage arranged for a stand alone compile job. All I could find was the distfile.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
