Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

2009-08-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 27 August 2009 12:55:11 Xavier Parizet wrote: > Mickaël Bucas a écrit : > > You may find some useful informations in /var/log/emerge.log : all lines > > containing ":::" show a succesful emerge. > > > > If you have kept the contents of this file since you installed your > > system, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

2009-08-27 Thread Xavier Parizet
Mickaël Bucas a écrit : > > You may find some useful informations in /var/log/emerge.log : all lines > containing ":::" show a succesful emerge. > > If you have kept the contents of this file since you installed your > system, you could then get the list of all packages you have installed. > It wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

2009-08-27 Thread Mickaël Bucas
2009/8/27 Alan McKinnon > On Thursday 27 August 2009 11:07:24 Xavier Parizet wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix this > > without rebuilding world and system from scratch ? > > You need to rebuild world from scratch :-) > > Portage h

Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

2009-08-27 Thread Xavier Parizet
Alan McKinnon a écrit : > On Thursday 27 August 2009 11:07:24 Xavier Parizet wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix this >> without rebuilding world and system from scratch ? > > You need to rebuild world from scratch :-) > > Portage has n

Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

2009-08-27 Thread Xavier Parizet
Dale a écrit : > Xavier Parizet wrote: >> Dale a écrit : >> >>> I don't but I'd wait until some other guru that has ran into this >>> problem comes along with a fix or advice on something to try. >>> >>> What happened anyway? Get a little happy with rm -rf or something? >>> >> I was trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

2009-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 27 August 2009 11:07:24 Xavier Parizet wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix this > without rebuilding world and system from scratch ? You need to rebuild world from scratch :-) Portage has now no way of knowing what you had. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

2009-08-27 Thread Dale
Xavier Parizet wrote: > Dale a écrit : > >> >> I don't but I'd wait until some other guru that has ran into this >> problem comes along with a fix or advice on something to try. >> >> What happened anyway? Get a little happy with rm -rf or something? >> > > I was trying to write a script t

Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

2009-08-27 Thread Xavier Parizet
Dale a écrit : > Xavier Parizet wrote: >> Dale a écrit : >> >>> Xavier Parizet wrote: >>> Hi everyone, I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix this without rebuilding world and system from scratch ? Thanks a lot for your help.

Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

2009-08-27 Thread Dale
Xavier Parizet wrote: > Dale a écrit : > >> Xavier Parizet wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix this >>> without >>> rebuilding world and system from scratch ? >>> >>> Thanks a lot for your help. >>> >>> >>> >> I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

2009-08-27 Thread Xavier Parizet
Dale a écrit : > Xavier Parizet wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix this >> without >> rebuilding world and system from scratch ? >> >> Thanks a lot for your help. >> >> > > I'm not sure but does emerge --metadata do this? You may w

Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

2009-08-27 Thread Dale
Xavier Parizet wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix this > without > rebuilding world and system from scratch ? > > Thanks a lot for your help. > > I'm not sure but does emerge --metadata do this? You may want to man emerge and see if a

[gentoo-user] Regenerating package db

2009-08-27 Thread Xavier Parizet
Hi everyone, I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix this without rebuilding world and system from scratch ? Thanks a lot for your help. -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408