Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib

2006-10-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 20 October 2006 04:11, Philip Webb wrote: > When using 'rm -f' (with or without '-r') the iron rule is > >   (1) goto the dir which contains the items to be removed >   (2) 'pwd' >   (3) 'ls ' >   (4) if is not '*', recall that line with Up-arrow, >       backspace over 'ls' & replace wi

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib

2006-10-19 Thread Philip Webb
061019 Stuart Howard wrote: > I am now working on the --emptytree to restore everything properly. > ps. tip of the day when spring cleaning your system watch out for > those little typos that can ruin your summer :) > pps. Just for fun it went something like this, > "rm -rf /usr/lib/libcrco.so /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib

2006-10-19 Thread Stuart Howard
Thanks for the advice folks. As it turned out I had enough of the lib left to keep some of the system running and I managed to copy over sufficient to get a working connection going then after much more thrashing of the head on desk it turned out that my backup was sufficient to get portage workin

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib

2006-10-19 Thread Nico Schümann
2006/10/19, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If not then you will need to acquire a binary gcc/etc to work around it. Then rebuild. emerge -e world I think, after having set up the tool chain, you'd do a emerge -e system and then emerge -e world, because the system packages aren't considered by the w

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib

2006-10-19 Thread Mark
On 18/10/06, Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could someone suggest a method for rebuilding the libraries? If you have a working toolchain and python, then you can utilise emerge to rebuild the system. If not then you will need to acquire a binary gcc/etc to work around it. Then rebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib

2006-10-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 22:07, Stuart Howard wrote: > Hey folks, > > In advance I admit I have done a dumb! thing [by accident] I have > managed to delete most of /usr/lib/ and my backup does not seem to be > wholesome . > Could someone suggest a method for rebuilding the libraries? > I was th

[gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib

2006-10-18 Thread Stuart Howard
Hey folks, In advance I admit I have done a dumb! thing [by accident] I have managed to delete most of /usr/lib/ and my backup does not seem to be wholesome . Could someone suggest a method for rebuilding the libraries? I was thinking about a liveCD plus chroot but I would like some advice before