Bug 49499

Summary:	As of "Fri Apr 30 14:18:58 UTC 2004"the portage tree did not contain an x86 rescue tarball
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Simon Farnsworth <simon>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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
Steps to Reproduce:

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.