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On 11/16/10 10:56:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Backup your portage related data and re-install. |
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> Seriously - you know you are looking at doing emerge -e world and |
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> will |
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> need to |
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> fiddle stuff to make it complete successfully. |
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> If you just reinstall, put your old world file and /etc/portage/ back |
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> then let |
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> portage have at it, that is exactly what will happen. You'll have |
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> 30-45 |
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> minutes of setup work and a high level of confidence it will complete |
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> successfully. |
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> Trying to fix the existing installation is potentially many hours of |
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> poking |
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> around to see what changed, potentially several goes at running |
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> emerge |
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> -e |
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> world, hair pulling, and you will probably give up and just reinstall |
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> anyway. |
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> I'm assuming you are looking for the easiest, fastest route to |
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> success |
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> with |
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> the least pain, and that your days of poking into portage to see how |
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> things |
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> work for fun are long over. |
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Thanks Alan, |
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just one more question: where are information like the |
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current eselect(ions) stored? |
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Helmut. |