On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote: > On Sunday 27 Mar 2011 12:57:23 AM Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> 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 > > yea i thought as much after reading that thread. Anyways qmerge is part of > portage-utils useful for mergeing bin pkgs when portage starts acting up.
I see. I though qmerge was its own package. I do indeed have portage-utils and hence qmerge. But it looks as though *this time* I won't need it. thanks for the help. allan
