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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newb question about emerge ...
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:05:43
Message-Id: 42B08AD0.1010200@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newb question about emerge ... by Thomas Matthijs
1 Thomas Matthijs wrote:
2 >># regenworld
3 >>run that command occassionally as sometimes things that get emerged
4 >>for whatever reason are not part of the world file AND not a direct
5 >>dependancy of something and so the emerge -avuDN world would not check
6 >>-- running this command will check and add these entries to the world
7 >>file so they will be included with updates.
8 >
9 >
10 > Don't! do that it will ruin your world file, it'll no longer be what the
11 > world file is supposed to be, but contain everything you merged. It is only
12 > ment as a rescue when you delete your world file(or lose it in some
13 > other way)
14
15 Nope. You're mixing that up with the evil `qpkg -I > world` command.
16 regenworld should be fine as long as /var/log/emerge.log is complete.
17
18 Marius
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Re: [gentoo-dev] newb question about emerge ... Thomas Matthijs <axxo@g.o>