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On 24/08/2015 16:46, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> Working thru all the guff with all you posters patient help would |
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> probably have been the best but between posting and seeing answers |
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> (suring the morning in the wee hours). I jumped stupid and starting |
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> uninstalling some of the blockers. |
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> So, I've made the mess considerably worse... maybe unsolvable since I |
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> have no gcc now and so no way to grind out the builds.... plus other |
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> truly boneheaded uninstalls that appear to have rendered my system |
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> unusable .... just like the little warning says when you |
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> gentoo -vC pkg ....... wheeeeee. |
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Ah yes. That was a supremely thick move on your part :-) [1] |
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> I'm pretty sure at this point... I best to get a re-install going. |
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It can be fixed. If you want the learning experience, here's how you |
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would do it: |
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It isn't the dead-end it first appears. Yes, you do need a compiler to |
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compile anything (including any version of the compiler itself), and now |
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you don't have one. Solution: figure out a way to get one! |
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Maybe your make.conf is set up to create binary packages, the variable |
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is PKGDIR. Look in that directory for gcc, and emerge it (yes, you can |
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emerge a tarball directly). Repeat for all important packages you |
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unmerged. Now you have a compiler, because you don't need a compiler to |
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untar a tarball. |
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Or you can get a binary package from anywhere else you trust. |
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Now, if you were to have unmerged python, or tar, bzip2 - then that is a |
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bigger problem. Boot off a rescue CD, mount your regular system |
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somewhere and untar into that location. Assuming of course that your |
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rescue CD has the tools you need like tar and bzip2 (most of what is in |
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@system) |
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> Also it may help some of you posters to know that this install was not |
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> fully developed and an in common use OS anyway....A reinstall will loose |
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> nothing of any importance. |
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> Whatever is there of importance would be in /home /etc/ and maybe /var |
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> so I've rsynced them to my current Solaris desktop and will have any |
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> needed files to use later after the reinstall has progressed to a |
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> higher level. |
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> Thank you all for the suggestions they are most instructive and my |
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> notes from them should prove useful down the road. |
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> PS - Its coming back to me how gentoo is installed with the stage3 and |
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> portage downloads. |
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> Again, thanks for your patience |
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Either way, you should be back up and running come Thursday latest :-) |
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Hey, this is Gentoo, here we like watching gcc outpt scroll by for |
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hours/days at a time. |
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[1] Reminds me of an old joke: |
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Q: What's the second worst sound you can hear a sysadmin make? |
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A: Uh-oh |
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Q: And the worst sound? |
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A: Oops.... |
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Looks like you had an oops moment there |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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