Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

[William Kenworthy]

On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 18:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:44:13 +0200
> Daniel Wagener <stelf@×××.net> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:44:33 -0500
> > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Alan McKinnon
> > > <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:53:41 -0400
> > > > Andrey Moshbear <andrey.vul@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras
> > > >> <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > >> > On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote:
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> Hello,
> > > >> >> because I broke me PC and I need to reinstall it I'm going
> > > >> >> ask what should I preserve to make install faster:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > So what *is* broken?  The hardware?  If you have a new PC, you
> > > >> > simply need to transfer your Gentoo install to a new hard disk
> > > >> > using rsync.
> > > >>
> > > >> He borked his /usr/include due to an improperly-written
> > > >> uninstall rule in a Makefile.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > if "emerge -e world" runs, it will fix that little oopsie
> > >
> > > No, it won't; if enough files from /usr/include are gone/borked,
> > > most packages will fail compilation. glibc alone has ~450 files
> > > under /usr/include; and basically everything depends on glibc.
> >
> > hmm, my approach in that case would be to get /usr from a recent
> > stage3 tarball and then running emerge -e world
> >
> > but maybe there is a reason why nobody came up with that already :-/
> >
>
> But that would be too easy, no wonder no-one mentioned it :-)
>
> It probably is the right thing to do though. You don;t actually know
> every package that's affected, and no easy way to find out and no way
> to find false negatives.
>
...

"equery check <pkgname>"

BillK