Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:59:36 -0600, Dale wrote: > I'm pretty sure I lost python once and buildsyspkg didn't > keep a binary copy around. Just try to emerge something without python > installed. :-( emerge paludis, it's an alternative package manager that doesn't use Python. You don't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-25 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:29:29 + (UTC) schrieb James : > Dale gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Besides gcc, what is a good list > > > of critical software to use guickpkg > > > as to keep backup binaries? > > > > FEATURES="buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch --keep-going" > > I saw thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-24 Thread Dale
James wrote: Dale gmail.com> writes: Besides gcc, what is a good list of critical software to use guickpkg as to keep backup binaries? FEATURES="buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch --keep-going" I saw this (FEATURES="buildpkg") googling around. 1. What is a

[gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-24 Thread James
Dale gmail.com> writes: > > Besides gcc, what is a good list > > of critical software to use guickpkg > > as to keep backup binaries? > FEATURES="buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch --keep-going" I saw this (FEATURES="buildpkg") googling around. 1. What is a good list of software to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-24 Thread Dale
James wrote: James tampabay.rr.com> writes: copy the gcc-*.tbz2 package from $PKGDIR on that to the broken system, then emerge -1k gcc. emergeing gcc now (thanks Neil!) One last question: so I've learned the hard way of the value of quickpkg. Besides gcc, what is

[gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-24 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > copy the gcc-*.tbz2 package from > > $PKGDIR on that to the broken system, > > then emerge -1k gcc. emergeing gcc now (thanks Neil!) One last question: so I've learned the hard way of the value of quickpkg. Besides gcc, what is a good list of critical soft

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:29:50 + (UTC), James wrote: > > quickpkg gcc on the other system, > > copy the gcc-*.tbz2 package from > > $PKGDIR on that to the broken system, > > OK I ran 'quickpkg gcc' got this: > > ls /usr/portage/packages/sys-devel > gcc-4.1.2.tbz2 gcc-4.1.2.tbz2.28680 gcc-

[gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-24 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > GUIDANCE on that is most welcome. > quickpkg gcc on the other system, > copy the gcc-*.tbz2 package from > $PKGDIR on that to the broken system, OK I ran 'quickpkg gcc' got this: ls /usr/portage/packages/sys-devel gcc-4.1.2.tbz2 gcc-4.1.2.tbz2.28680

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-24 Thread Dale
james wrote: Dale gmail.com> writes: I lost the only copy of gcc on the system I would be glad to email you the binary from mine if it would help. Dale, I have several system to copy from (thanks anyway). Is that all I have to do, just copy over the binary? then

[gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-24 Thread james
Florian Philipp binarywings.net> writes: > > Since there is no gcc-bin to emerge (ha ha) > > I guess I'll have to copy over the binary of > > orsys-devel/gcc-4.4.4-r2 from another system. > > GUIDANCE on that is most welcome. > [...] OK, if this the first step, then I'm confused. /usr/bin ha

[gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-24 Thread James
Florian Philipp binarywings.net> writes: > This should get you going: > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/168951?do=post_view_threaded#168951 ok, after reading I tried this: emerge --usepkg gcc which did not work. Can you be more specific on the syntax? It looks like t

[gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

2011-02-24 Thread james
Dale gmail.com> writes: > > I lost the only copy of gcc on the system > I would be glad to email you the binary from mine if it would help. Dale, I have several system to copy from (thanks anyway). Is that all I have to do, just copy over the binary? then rebuild gcc via the local ebu