Repairing Gentoo Failure

[quazar]

I had this problem a while back, and it has struck once again, this time on a friends computer.

To make a long story short, bash was unmerged, and emerge and ebuild no longer functioned.

System was booted back up to the Gentoo 1.4 rc1 CD, drives mounted, and stage1 tarball was extracted.

Upon the following reboot, system was logged back into, and emerge clean was ran. Here is what we saw:

# emerge clean

sys-libs/glibc
selected: 2.2.5-r6
protected: 2.2.5-r7
omitted: none

sys-apps/baselayout
selected: 1.8.3
protected: 1.8.4.1
omitted: none

>>> Packages in red are slated for removal.
>>> Packages in green will not be removed.

>>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting unmerge.
>>> (Control-C to abort)...

It wants to remove the baselayout and glibc. The problem is, 1.8.4.1 of the baselayout basically is non existant at this point, becuase of the stage1 tarball re-extraction.

Is there a way to modify the portage database on the local system, so that it only thinks that one of those copies is running?

Im assuming they need to think that the older copies of both packages should be the only ones "thought" to be installed.

Thanks in advance,
quazar

[n0n]

Personally, I'd do this:

[quazar]

n0n - Excellent advise !! We have done that, and took our gamble, and what do you know? It worked !!


Thanks for your contribution to this great cause,
quazar[/quote]