Alan McKinnon a écrit : > On Thursday 27 August 2009 11:07:24 Xavier Parizet wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I had some problem with /var/db/pkg : it's empty. So, how can i fix this >> without rebuilding world and system from scratch ? > > You need to rebuild world from scratch :-) > > Portage has now no way of knowing what you had. If emerge world does not work > for some reason, you will have to: > > 1. download a recent suitable stage tarball > 2. Back up everything that tarball might want to overwrite > 3. Unpack that tarball to / > 4. Put critical files back that the stage overwrote > 5. emerge world > > You might also want to do all this in a chroot off a LiveCD >
I think this would be the last option of course... it will take me 2 days to
rebuild my world (i had already done this one week ago...)
So thanks for your solution, i'll keep it under my hand ;)
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