Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From:	Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
To:	gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re emerge apache.
Date:	Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:41:42
Message-Id:	`438C6829.7050907@gentoo.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-amd64] Re emerge apache. by Mark Haney

1	Hi,
2
3	Mark Haney wrote:
4	> I did something kind of stupid and FUBAR'd apache. I am now trying to
5	> remove it and re-install it as if it were a new install. What's the way
6	> to do it? I have tried unmerge and re-emerged it, but no good. Any ideas?
7
8	Portage has a somewhat questionable feature called "config
9	protection"[1]. You've got to delete the config files (or better move
10	them somewhere).
11
12	Regards,
13
14	[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8423
15
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17	Simon Stelling
18	Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead
19	blubb@g.o
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