Uh-Oh, deleted my profiles dir in /usr/portage....HELP?

doofstructor · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 4

Okay, so I was merging Open Office and after it failed for teh second time for lack of space, I started rm -r *-ing with extreme prejudice....and, long story short, I nuked my profile dir for portage and now I am borked.

Can anyone tell me how to recreate it (it was a P3 vanilla system...I hadnt messed with any of the stuff in that directory since the 1.4 install).

Better yet, can someone post theirs so I can rip it off? I have no idea how big a request this is, b/c I honestly don't know how much stuff was in there.

Thanks to any kind souls for helping out a real BIG dumbarse like myself....

ronmon · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:58 pm Post subject:

An 'emerge rsync' will restore it.

bokkepoot · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:00 pm Post subject:

I'd say an "emerge sync" will fix it all; the contents of your installed system is located in /var/db, so its no biggie

doofstructor · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 4

funny how the mind shuts out reasonable (and easy) attempts to fix a problem when it is in panic mode....

thanks a bunch!

Ian · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 12:14 am Post subject:

Pfft, that's not going to set you into crazy panic mode. Delete all your music. Then realize what you just did. That's crazy panic mode

(Although, I did find it all, or most of it, again :p).

Portage though, is pretty resiliant against stupidity. A very nice job that the developers did on that. Anything i program, well, it breaks much easier

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