Bogo Mipps wrote: > 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.
Yours is a up-to-date system and you have busybox installed? Then type in that command and read carefully: "Most people will create a link to busybox for each function they wish to use, and BusyBox will act like whatever it was invoked as." You have a lot of links to make. :| You won't need all of these, but to give you an index of what coreutils contains, here's the output of 'equery files coreutils': /bin /bin/basename /bin/cat /bin/chgrp /bin/chmod /bin/chown /bin/chroot /bin/cksum /bin/comm /bin/cp /bin/cut /bin/date /bin/dd /bin/df /bin/dir /bin/dircolors /bin/dirname /bin/du /bin/echo /bin/env /bin/expr /bin/false /bin/head /bin/hostid /bin/id /bin/install /bin/link /bin/ln /bin/logname /bin/ls /bin/mkdir /bin/mkfifo /bin/mknod /bin/mv /bin/nice /bin/nohup /bin/printenv /bin/ptx /bin/pwd /bin/readlink /bin/rm /bin/rmdir /bin/seq /bin/sleep /bin/sort /bin/split /bin/stat /bin/stty /bin/sync /bin/tee /bin/touch /bin/tr /bin/true /bin/tty /bin/uname /bin/uniq /bin/unlink /bin/vdir /bin/wc /bin/who /bin/whoami /bin/yes /etc /etc/DIR_COLORS /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/[ /usr/bin/basename /usr/bin/cat /usr/bin/chgrp /usr/bin/chmod /usr/bin/chown /usr/bin/chroot /usr/bin/cksum /usr/bin/comm /usr/bin/cp /usr/bin/csplit /usr/bin/cut /usr/bin/date /usr/bin/dd /usr/bin/df /usr/bin/dir /usr/bin/dircolors /usr/bin/dirname /usr/bin/du /usr/bin/echo /usr/bin/env /usr/bin/expand /usr/bin/expr /usr/bin/factor /usr/bin/false /usr/bin/fmt /usr/bin/fold /usr/bin/head /usr/bin/hostid /usr/bin/id /usr/bin/install /usr/bin/join /usr/bin/link /usr/bin/ln /usr/bin/logname /usr/bin/ls /usr/bin/md5sum /usr/bin/mkdir /usr/bin/mkfifo /usr/bin/mknod /usr/bin/mv /usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/nl /usr/bin/nohup /usr/bin/od /usr/bin/paste /usr/bin/pathchk /usr/bin/pinky /usr/bin/pr /usr/bin/printenv /usr/bin/printf /usr/bin/ptx /usr/bin/pwd /usr/bin/readlink /usr/bin/rm /usr/bin/rmdir /usr/bin/seq /usr/bin/sha1sum /usr/bin/shred /usr/bin/sleep /usr/bin/sort /usr/bin/split /usr/bin/stat /usr/bin/stty /usr/bin/sum /usr/bin/sync /usr/bin/tac /usr/bin/tail /usr/bin/tee /usr/bin/test /usr/bin/touch /usr/bin/tr /usr/bin/true /usr/bin/tsort /usr/bin/tty /usr/bin/uname /usr/bin/unexpand /usr/bin/uniq /usr/bin/unlink /usr/bin/users /usr/bin/vdir /usr/bin/wc /usr/bin/who /usr/bin/whoami /usr/bin/yes [...man pages left out...] Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list