Laurie Brown wrote:
Gentoo doesn't use rpm. Type:
you can use rpms for package management, at least that is what i have read, ebuild can do ebuild foo.ebuild makerpm or somesuch, which may be the only way for me to get portage and emerge+ebuild back.
$> emerge portage
will not work as it removed itself, ie. command not found...
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?
emerge and ebuild appear to have been part of portage, which removed itself, at the time it said it was removing the old version as a newer version was installed.
Adam