HELP: deleted /var/db/pkg directory

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motzl · Post by **motzl** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:24 pm

first,
happy new year for all gentoo users.

well deleted this directory:
/var/db/pkg
and is there any other way to recreate this entries than

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emerge inject

what shall i do?

thanks

Kruegi · Post by **Kruegi** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:28 pm

You hit the jackpot!
This was the most important directory of your Gentoo installation.

You can try to remerge world with -e, but you may never get a perfect system again.
The best way would be to reinstall. Sorry!

Thomas

motzl · Post by **motzl** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:31 pm

well, that wasnt my aim, I just wanted to delete /var/tmp/portage/*;
shit.

mhm. well. have to build a new system.

tomk · Post by **tomk** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:54 pm

Moved from Gentoo on PPC to Duplicate Threads, please see these two topics: [topic]57911[/topic] and [topic]147164[/topic].