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quoth the David Bélanger: |
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> On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:12:05PM -0800, darren kirby wrote: |
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> > quoth the David Bélanger: |
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> > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:33:14PM -0800, darren kirby wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > Did you try the glibc on the installation/Live CDs? |
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> > > If there is no packages, simply copy all the glibc files over and try |
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> > > it. |
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> > |
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> > I have the universal install disk. The glibc package here will just be |
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> > source code wont it? I guess I could just re-unpack the stage 3 file, but |
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> > I am unsure how this will affect the packages I have already |
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> > installed/updated, such as everything you do after unpacking the stage |
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> > tarball in the install guide. |
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> > |
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> > I am unsure of how to separate the glibc files from the rest in the stage |
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> > tarball. |
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> |
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> If you can boot a Live/Installation CD, there will be a glibc on the / |
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> filesystem mounted by the kernel. To get a list of files, you can use |
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> the database on your disk: |
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> /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc-*/CONTENTS |
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> Basically, you just want to have a valid set of files so that |
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> you can rebuild glibc. |
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> I erased before coreutils (ls, rm, cp, etc.) and I simply copied all of |
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> them from my Debian partition. For some weird version the ones on the |
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> Gentoo CD were not working... Once, I had valid binaries, I just |
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> re-emerged coreutils and everything was fine. |
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> |
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> Anyway, you might want to consider adding "buildpkg" to FEATURES in |
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> /etc/make.conf. That way, next time something goes wrong you just |
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> re-installed the previous version. buildpkg will do a tarball |
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> for everything that gets installed on your system. So, you never |
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> get stuck by not have a pre-compiled package. |
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A good idea... |
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> In any case, you can always extract the full base tarball from the |
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> installation CD. You will get more than what is needed but you |
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> wont have to reinstall. It messes a little the system but you |
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> can always remove later any files not owned by any installed ebuilds. |
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Thank you, this is what I'll do. |
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> David |
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-d |
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> |
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> David Bélanger |
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> Web page: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/ |
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> Public key: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/public_key.txt |
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-- |
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org |
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"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." |
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- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 |
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