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> On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: |
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> > |
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> > I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo |
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> > installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, |
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and |
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> > a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize |
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them |
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> > for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad |
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> genkernel does not use USE flags, so, that's not related, probably. |
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> Someone will tell if I'm wrong. |
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> |
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> > understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all |
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the |
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> > use flags, changed them to: |
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> > |
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> > USE="-*" |
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> > |
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> Heh, once I tried that... Its better leave it empty than putting this. |
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> You CAN put "-*", but then you would have to create a fairly large |
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> packages.use in order to get a working system. That includes every |
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> package listed in "emerge -pv world" with an entry. |
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> |
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> Remove that option, start with minimal USE flags and reemerge world. |
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> You're lucky you didn't try emerge -e system after that. |
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> |
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> > and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I |
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have |
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> > broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it |
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> > build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) |
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and |
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> > im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these |
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> > systems to get things working right again? |
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> You're lucky that you still have a working system after all. You even |
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> get a working portage, so, nothing to worry about. Fix your flags and |
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> reemerge world. |
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> -- |
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[Timothy A. Holmes] |
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Turns out all 5 systems are totally broke - I will be rebuilding all of |
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them -- |
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If anyone can suggest a good set of minimal use flags, I would be most |
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thankful |
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Tim |
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Timothy A. Holmes |
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IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher |
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Medina Christian Academy |
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A Higher Standard... |
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Jeremiah 33:3 |
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Jeremiah 29:11 |
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Esther 4:14 |
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