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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:53:40
Message-Id: 20100212225232.5e66df86@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? by Kyle Bader
1 On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:21:18 -0800, Kyle Bader wrote:
2
3 > >> Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation?
4 > >
5 > > tar up /etc.
6 >
7 > Make sure the tar can extract on another system. Backups that haven't
8 > been tested are not backups! :D
9
10 /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do just what the OP
11 wants, rebuild everything without touching the configs.
12
13 Of course, a backup of /etc is always a handy thing to have around anyway,
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17 Neil Bothwick
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19 In the begining, there was nothing.

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