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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Arjan Bouter <a_bouter AT ezrs.com>:
> Hello guys,
>
> I was wondering, has anybody else got trouble updating coreutils?
> When updating my laptop, coreutils got stuck complaining about being unable
> to
> locate /bin/mkdir.
>
> It seems as if it's dispelled first before installing. After that it
> obviously
> can't find mkdir, install and the others...
> I manually copied the executables to /bin and my system works fine now,
> however, coreutils is not tracked by smgl now...
>
> I'm running test sorcery with test grimoire.

I've never had that problem. Could you try recasting (with `cast -c 
coreutils`)
now that you have the files back and see if it installs fine (may want to
backup the files again, just in case ;))?

-sandalle

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