Oh, and when you manually unpack, you must
touch /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.48-r1/.unpacked
and portage will stop trying to unpack your tar.bz2 file for you.
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 19:25, bryce wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, i'm trying to downgrade, from r2 to r1, and i get
> the error in my first email when attempting to do it w/ emerge.
>
> b.
>
> On Tuesday 01 July 2003 05:04 pm, Shawn wrote:
> > From Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > First, delete the distfile and try to re-emerge. If no luck,
> > do it
> > manually.
> >
> > ebuild /path/to/ebuild unpack | tar -xjf <package> into
> > /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.48-r2/work
> > ebuild /path/to/ebuild compile
> > ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge
> >
> > Or file a bug and wait for it to be fixed globally. That
> > package is
> > hardmasked anyway isn't it?
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 18:47, bryce wrote:
> > > OK, i got caught up in this little bug that has been passed around,
> > > and now they want me to downgrade portage... and i would love to,
> > > but i get
> > >
> > > this error when i try( and w/ some other packages as well):
> > > >>> Unpacking source...
> > > >>> Unpacking portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2 to
> > >
> > > /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.48-r1/wo
> > > rk
> > > Calculating dependencies ...done!
> > >
> > > >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r1 to /
> > > >>> md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > (1 of 1) Compiling/Merging
> > > (/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.0.48-r1.ebu
> > > ild)tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> > > tar: Skipping to next header
> > > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> > >
> > > bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows.
> > > bzip2: Broken pipe
> > > Input file =
> > > /usr/portage/distfiles/portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2, output fi
> > > le = (stdout)
> > >
> > > !!! ERROR: sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r1 failed.
> > > !!! Function unpack, Line 294, Exitcode 2
> > > !!! failure unpacking portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > I tried whipping out the install cd, and doing it from in there,
> > > but no luck, tried reemerging tar see if that helped, tried
> > > remergin bzip2( and that just utterly failed).
> > >
> > > Any ideas???
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > bryce
> > >
> > >
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