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From: Chris Walters <cjw2004d@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] My recent problems have been strange...
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:06:35
Message-Id: 47CCBCAF.70300@comcast.net
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4 My recent problems upgrading packages to the testing versions have been more
5 than a little odd. It would always end the same way - there would be files
6 missing that had been there before I merged a package, and the loss of these
7 files would prevent the caching of service dependencies. Thus, I could not use
8 emerge and several other tools.
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10 The strange part is that it happened four different times with four different
11 packages. Three examples are texinfo, gawk and coreutils. What makes this
12 problem more odd is that I could install those those packages, without trouble,
13 later - with no changes on my part. I did not sync, as I was already up to
14 date, and I did not change any options. Each time I was able to merge a
15 package that has caused me trouble, another package, would cause the same problem.
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17 Oh, and by the way, yes I do keep an up to date backup of my entire system, and
18 will restore it, if necessary. This is especially true when re-installing
19 Gentoo, as I have found that, often the order of emerging things can make or
20 break a system (I would call a system broken when you can't run emerge, many
21 key files are missing, and the environment variables are such that you can't
22 run anything, and when rebooting does not work, causing you to have to turn off
23 the computer which corrupts the file system).
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25 Regards,
26 Chris
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28 PS: I finally got everything in order, and it is working fine.
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