need to get tar back

[exec]

somehow my tar got messed up and
wouldn't upack anything, so after
a couple attempts at updating etc.
I just unmerged it in my bit of anger
so now I'm stuck without tar, how
can I get it back?

[reves]

If you have access to another system you could download it and unpack it then copy it to /var/tmp/portage then run

[exec]

I tryed to just move the bin from
the cd and emerge again, but that
didn't work, so I tryed to get the
.ebuild from my laptop and run the
code you suggested, but I get the
error unable to find tar command, so
then I tryed to use the bin from the
cd and use your code, and it says
cannot execute binary file.

[darktux]

On your laptop do:

CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
emerge tar -B (change those values to the ones you have on the make.conf of your troubled pc).

Then your laptop will create a .tbz2 which will be located in /usr/portage/packages/All. Copy that file to the troubled pc to the same location that it was on the laptop and do emerge -k tar.something.tbz2 and you'll be ready to go

EDIT: I've just remembered, you'll need tar to 'explode' that file. So my advice is, after building the .tbz2 file, unpack it and copy over the binaries. Good luck
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[reves]