[gentoo-user] portage woes

2003-07-01 Thread bryce
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

Re: [gentoo-user] portage woes

2003-07-01 Thread Shawn
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

Re: [gentoo-user] portage woes

2003-07-01 Thread bryce
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

Re: [gentoo-user] portage woes

2003-07-01 Thread Shawn
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