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My recent problems upgrading packages to the testing versions have been more |
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than a little odd. It would always end the same way - there would be files |
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missing that had been there before I merged a package, and the loss of these |
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files would prevent the caching of service dependencies. Thus, I could not use |
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emerge and several other tools. |
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The strange part is that it happened four different times with four different |
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packages. Three examples are texinfo, gawk and coreutils. What makes this |
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problem more odd is that I could install those those packages, without trouble, |
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later - with no changes on my part. I did not sync, as I was already up to |
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date, and I did not change any options. Each time I was able to merge a |
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package that has caused me trouble, another package, would cause the same problem. |
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Oh, and by the way, yes I do keep an up to date backup of my entire system, and |
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will restore it, if necessary. This is especially true when re-installing |
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Gentoo, as I have found that, often the order of emerging things can make or |
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break a system (I would call a system broken when you can't run emerge, many |
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key files are missing, and the environment variables are such that you can't |
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run anything, and when rebooting does not work, causing you to have to turn off |
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the computer which corrupts the file system). |
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Regards, |
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Chris |
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PS: I finally got everything in order, and it is working fine. |
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