On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote: > On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 06:54:29 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files. >> But emerge won't install it (again, just returns). >> >> Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files? > > do you have qmerge installed? > > qmerge -K <package name>
No and eix qmerge doesn't show it. However, I was apparently bitten by the same python problem as in the next thread. I have done eselect python set 1 and now revdep-rebuild is reinstalling 25 packages. allan