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katfish
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 Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:29 am Post subject: world file damage (workarounded) |
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Hi, my world seems to be very empty today.
Checking for package upgrades feels like an almost empty world and hundreds of packages will be pulled in.
Portage advise to run 'emaint --check world' nor 'regenworld' helps.
http://hbox.binarysignals.net/pub/portage
Any ideas?
Thx,
Ingo
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epsilon72
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:22 am Post subject: |
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Is there anything at all in your world file?
| Code: | | $ cat /var/lib/portage/world |
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katfish
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| About 20 packages only. There should be many more! |
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jormartr
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:50 am Post subject: |
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Then, try emerge --depclean -p, and take from its output the packages that you explicitly installed, and add them manually.
If there is other way, I do not know it. |
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ultraincognito
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| You can manually add wanted items to the world file. |
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epsilon72
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:36 am Post subject: |
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If the package is already installed but not in world, you can have portage add it to the world file with
| Code: | | $ emerge -u <package names> |
It will add them to the world file in alphabetical order without re-compiling them, assuming they don't need to be upgraded. |
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Hu
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| You could also use emerge --noreplace, which will add it without rebuilding even if it does need an upgrade. |
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epsilon72
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:54 am Post subject: |
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| Hu wrote: | | You could also use emerge --noreplace, which will add it without rebuilding even if it does need an upgrade. |
Thanks, that's good to know  |
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katfish
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:01 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the tips mates.
It wasn't only the world file which was damaged, the complete portage db is gone and I had no backup.
"emerge world -eavuDN --keep-going --jobs=2 --complete-graph" runs fine now and should recreate the db. |
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katfish
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, it's me again.
Remerging world makes portage usable again, but doesn't solve my problem.
Is there any other way to figure out, which packages are installed on my system?
I had a look on portageq but that tool needs a prober portage db to work.... |
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epsilon72
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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As jormartr said, you could try
| Code: | | emerge -p --depclean |
and look at the packages it wants to uninstall - out of the ones there, pick out the ones you explicitly want your world file, and then do
| Code: | | emerge --noreplace <list of wanted packages goes here> |
If your world entries are truly gone then there might not be an easier way around this. Just think back to when you installed your Gentoo system, and what packages you explicitly told portage to install. |
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katfish
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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naah, it's not only the world file. portage keeps track of each packages you emerge.
The DB is normally at /var/db/pkg/ - and mine is gone. So I have remerge everything, it seems. |
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