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?
Thanks Adam
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.
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
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:43:10PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
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.....
Oh dear..... what were you doing emerge clean in the first place? ;)
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.
Rpm isn't included which requires you to compile and install......
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?
Check over @ forums.gentoo.org for this.. I think your best bet is to find portage sitting somewhere in a stage-1 2 or 3 tarball and you could lift it up from there?
Check the forums just in case...
Craig wrote:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:43:10PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
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.....
Oh dear..... what were you doing emerge clean in the first place? ;)
cleaning out the old ebuild files, the manual and user guide on the webpage say it is a safe action, I somewhat disagree with this statement...
Adam
Damnitt, missed of half of my reply due to user error...
Craig wrote:
Rpm isn't included which requires you to compile and install......
Damn....
Check over @ forums.gentoo.org for this.. I think your best bet is to find portage sitting somewhere in a stage-1 2 or 3 tarball and you could lift it up from there?
Check the forums just in case...
will do... although I am not very impressed with this suicidal behaviour. If its non-trivial to fix I think I may go back to Debian.
Adam
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