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On Freitag 25 September 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: |
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> Hi group, |
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> After my last -uvDN world and subsequent revdep-rebuild and emerge |
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> --depclean I found the main Makefile under /usr/src/linux was missing. |
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> I managed to extract it from the sources and copy it over only to find |
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> that, naturally, many other files were missing too. I gave up after |
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> the third extraction/copy pass. Which leads to the following: |
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> 1) What is the approved method of re-populating that all-important |
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> directory, just untar the sources back in or ? |
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> 2)How can I prevent this from happening again? The gentoo docs just |
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> say, after the dust settles, to do a revdep followed by depclean. Is |
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> that what did the deed? This was my first world upgrade and I sure |
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> don't want to go through this again, if I can prevent it. |
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> Maxim |
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1) just extract the stuff in /usr/src |
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2) it never happened to me so I don't know. |
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