On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:24:29 -0400, 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? > > tar xf package-tbz -C / > > Ignore the warnings about metadata, but re-emerge the package as soon as > you can to stop portage getting confused.
That is what I hoped. It does now seem that I was bitten by the python update. Having executed eselect python set 1 has help considerably. When the current update world completes, I will try python-updater and hopefully all will be well. But thanks for the tip it is nice to know that I do have two recourses (the untar and qmerge) in case emerge dies. thank you all again. allan
