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On Sunday 09 October 2005 05:03, Tres Melton wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 16:20 -0600, scotthathcock@×××××××.net wrote: |
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> > My system has developed serious problems related to the emul libs. The |
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> > advice given as a reply to my bug has made the system impossible to |
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> > upgrade using emerge. It is possible the problem dates back to the |
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> > 2004.3->2005.0 upgrade, I don't know. |
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> > |
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> > Is there a way to build a "from scratch" 2005.1 system over the net |
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> > without having to download and boot from a CD? Will it leave my user |
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> > directories alone? The installation docs assume that you don't have a |
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> > runnig gentoo system and start with a boot CD. |
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> I wouldn't do this without a developer telling you it is going to work |
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> but.... |
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> Get a bootable Linux CD and boot from it and unzip the portage snapshot |
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> and stage tarball onto your system as the manual says. Then sync, |
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> bootstrap, and emerge -e world. That should get you back to where you |
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> are functional. Just use the newest 2005.1 stage on the install. |
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It should get you workable. But if you do this, you should backup your /etc |
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directory above all. tar will hapilly overwrite whatever you put there, and |
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you'd like to keep that. What I like to do is the following: |
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Create a directory somewhere on a partition with enough space. Unpack the |
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stage3 tarball there. (or stage1 or 2 depending on preference). Chroot into |
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the directory. Find the package that is causing the pain (likely gcc, glibc, |
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binutils) create binary packages of those using "emerge --buildpkg". Then |
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copy those binary packages to the normal location in your system (out of the |
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chroot) and merge them (you can just point to the .tbz2 files even though |
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portage warns you against it, as binary packages know their category). Then |
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you've got a good chance to get your system working again. You could even do |
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this with the whole system. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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