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Bug 49499 - As of "Fri Apr 30 14:18:58 UTC 2004"the portage tree did not contain an x86 rescue tarball
Summary: As of "Fri Apr 30 14:18:58 UTC 2004"the portage tree did not contain an x86 r...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2004-04-30 07:21 UTC by Simon Farnsworth
Modified: 2004-05-20 11:16 UTC (History)
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Description Simon Farnsworth 2004-04-30 07:21:36 UTC
I'm sure this is just an oversight on someone's part, but there is currently no portage-rescue for x86 in the rsync portage tree. If you've broken things to the point where you need a portage rescue image, you may well not be able to run wget or similar (I needed one due to broken glibc after a power failure during emerge, but used a second box to recover).

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-05-02 13:24:01 UTC
If wget can't run due to a broken glibc... how is emerge going to run?
I removed them because 2 megs in rescue tarballs isn't overly helpful.

If your box is that broken, then a liveCD is probably required which
has the capability to run wget.

If you have another scenario, I'll listen, but I don't foresee adding
them back into cvs/rsync.
Comment 2 Simon Farnsworth 2004-05-02 14:36:56 UTC
It just seems odd to me that Gentoo supplies rescue tarballs for some architectures and not others; if you're removing the lot from the rsync rotation, that's a good enough reason to close the bug as FIXED AFAIAC.
Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-05-20 11:16:13 UTC
They will all be removed in the near future.