On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 23:13 +1300, Bogo Mipps wrote:
> Hi
>
> Have stuffed up and accidentally un-merged my coreutils: now can't emerge
> either what was current (5.2.1-r7) or newer version (5.3.0-r1) and needless
> to say have lost all coreutils tools which doesn't help. Google makes it look
> like no-one else has been so stupid.
>
> This is what I get:
>
> <snip>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3228, in ?
> mydepgraph.merge(pkglist)
> File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1912, in merge
>
> retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,tree="porttree")
> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2768, in doebuild
>
> retval=spawnebuild("install",actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=1,logfile=logfile)
> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
> retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
> ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
> retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
> ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
> retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
> ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2318, in spawnebuild
> retval=spawnebuild(actionmap[mydo]
> ["dep"],actionmap,mysettings,debug,alwaysdep=alwaysdep,logfile=logfile)
> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2334, in spawnebuild
> droppriv=actionmap[mydo]["args"][1],logfile=logfile)
> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1615, in spawn
> return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords)
> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in spawn_bash
> return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords)
> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 83, in spawn
>
> mypid.extend(spawn(('tee','-i','-a',logfile),returnpid=True,fd_pipes={0:pr,1:1,2:2}))
> TypeError: iteration over non-sequence
> <snip>
>
> Can anyone help? Please!
>
> Bogo
>
>
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Hi,
One way to go is find a binary package for coreutils, but watch out it
must match your -arch or -mtune settings.
Another way is to boot any recent install-cd chroot to your existing
install and emerge only "coreutils".
HTH.Rumen
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