emerge --depclean and unmerged python

[Jonathan183]

I just had one of those oh cr*p moments ...

I updated my Funtoo install yesterday which was fairly uneventful, ran revdep-rebuild and started having a couple of issues which I fixed running emerge --depclean -a then revdep-rebuild. Anyway today I updated my Gentoo install, ran emerge --depclean -a and having done something similar in Funtoo the day before just accepted the package removals (about 26 of them) ... and unmerged python

revdep-rebuild reported emerge could not build packages and running emerge manually just returns a prompt with no activity ...

... panic set in and I started trying to fix portage (this did not work)

mv /usr/lib/portage /usr/lib/portage-old-july2011
mkdir /usr/lib/portage
cd /root
mkdir portage-recover
cd portage-recover
tar xfj /usr/portage/distfiles/portage-2.1.9.42.tar.bz2
cd /root/portage-recover/portage-2.1.9.42
cp -R pym bin /usr/lib/portage/

but emerge still did not work
So I removed the /usr/lib/portage folder and did

mv /usr/lib/portage-old-july2011 /usr/lib/portage

to put my original version back again ...

Then ran (to fix things)

eselect python list
eselect python set 1

and I'm currently running python-updater
... which is currently running compiling 38 packages

[MikeTbob]

Sounds like you avoided the "Big one" here. Good luck with the rest, python-updater always gives me grief.

[Jonathan183]

Thank Mike ... python-updater finished OK