Borked system [SOLVED]

The Mad Mahdi · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:52 am Post subject: Borked system [SOLVED]

Hi. Today I managed to bork my system by deleting devfsd. I have downloaded a package from a server to /var/tmp/portage-pkg/All but when I try to emerge i get the message "there are no ebuilds to satisfy devfsd...". The portage tree in /usr/portage has entries for 1.3.25-r{8,9} but none for 1.3.25 (no -r). I cannot find an .ebuild for 1.3.25, only for -r{7,8,9}
Please help!

m_spidey · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:12 am Post subject:

Is there a reason why you can't just emerge one of the ebuilds you have? Are they masked or something?
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Maedhros · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:45 am Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.
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The Mad Mahdi · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject:

M-Spidey

Umm, yeah. That would have worked. It was late and my brain must have switched off. Anyway I solved the problem by copying over /sbin/devfsd from the LiveCD. I'm emerging it again now so that I don't have any versioning problems (the version of devfsd on the LiveCD is older than the one I deleted.)

Thanks.