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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:37:14 +0200, Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 12 October 2004 08:53, Anupam Kapoor wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:19:08 -0400, Nicholas Jones <carpaski@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> > > > do you still think that i need to do an emerge -e world ? |
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> > > Yes... Deleting things is what broke it the first time... |
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> > > Why would deleting more things "help"? |
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> > maybe the script tries to recreate the lost files ? i didn't look at |
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> > the script, so this is all speculation. |
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> There is no way in which the script can recreate the lost files as you |
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> just have removed portages record of those files. This means you now have |
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> orphan files. This is actually close to what Nick (THE PORTAGE |
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> MAINTAINER) suggested, except that Nick's approach is safe as it actually |
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> keeps the records. |
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ok. thanks for your input, i am emerging everything now. |
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can you please explain to me what 'COUNTER' really means in context of |
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portage database ? if there is documentation already, can you please |
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point me to it ? |
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thank you |
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kind regards |
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anupam |
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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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