Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:26:02 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > I would like to know the correct way to emerge a tbz2 file where I > > wanted to go back to a version which worked and I had used a .9999 > > package, so I could not do it in .git (let me know if there is a way to > > go back to a commit). What I did was to go to / and extract the > > archive, but that totally hosed my system, because the /usr/lib which is > > normally a link to /usr/lib64 was replace with a directory and so I was > > getting lots of libraries which could not be found although they were > > there. After discovering this and rebooting, etc. I solved the problem > > by extracting to a temp directory and making sure bad things didn't > > happen. Now I can watch, but is there a correct way to do this? > > I had exactly the same problem with /lib being overwritten when I > unpacked a tbz into /, it took a while to work out what was wrong. > > Although it gives warnings, emerge -1a /path/to/pkg.tbz usually works.
OK, thanks. Is thea for ask? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com