quoth the David Bélanger: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:12:05PM -0800, darren kirby wrote: > > quoth the David Bélanger: > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:33:14PM -0800, darren kirby wrote: > > > > > > Did you try the glibc on the installation/Live CDs? > > > If there is no packages, simply copy all the glibc files over and try > > > it. > > > > I have the universal install disk. The glibc package here will just be > > source code wont it? I guess I could just re-unpack the stage 3 file, but > > I am unsure how this will affect the packages I have already > > installed/updated, such as everything you do after unpacking the stage > > tarball in the install guide. > > > > I am unsure of how to separate the glibc files from the rest in the stage > > tarball. > > If you can boot a Live/Installation CD, there will be a glibc on the / > filesystem mounted by the kernel. To get a list of files, you can use > the database on your disk: > /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc-*/CONTENTS > > Basically, you just want to have a valid set of files so that > you can rebuild glibc. > > I erased before coreutils (ls, rm, cp, etc.) and I simply copied all of > them from my Debian partition. For some weird version the ones on the > Gentoo CD were not working... Once, I had valid binaries, I just > re-emerged coreutils and everything was fine. > > Anyway, you might want to consider adding "buildpkg" to FEATURES in > /etc/make.conf. That way, next time something goes wrong you just > re-installed the previous version. buildpkg will do a tarball > for everything that gets installed on your system. So, you never > get stuck by not have a pre-compiled package.
A good idea... > In any case, you can always extract the full base tarball from the > installation CD. You will get more than what is needed but you > wont have to reinstall. It messes a little the system but you > can always remove later any files not owned by any installed ebuilds. > Thank you, this is what I'll do. > David -d > > David Bélanger > Web page: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/ > Public key: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/public_key.txt -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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