Adam Bower wrote:
Hi all,
was using gentoo last night and did a emerge clean which should not remove any packages critical for operation of the machine and had it remove portage.....
This has resulted in one very poorly box, does anyone have any idea how i could fix this? Is rpm included by default on the system? I can't check anything now as I am at work but I just wanted to read the docs to make sure I hadn't done anything stupid and now feel vindicated that I was not at fault.
Anyhow if rpm is included in the base system would somebody mind building me an rpm of portage-2.0.38 please? If it isn't has anybody else got any good ideas?
Gentoo doesn't use rpm. Type:
$> emerge portage
and it should just work. I'm unaware of portage disappearing like this before. What does "emerge -s portage" tell you? Further, removing portage shouldn't stop the box running. Have you done "emerge rsync" recently? what does "emerge --update -world -p" tell you?
Cheers, Laurie.