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On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: |
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> I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo |
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> installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and |
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> a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize them |
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> for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad |
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genkernel does not use USE flags, so, that's not related, probably. |
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Someone will tell if I'm wrong. |
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> understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all the |
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> use flags, changed them to: |
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> USE="-*" |
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Heh, once I tried that... Its better leave it empty than putting this. |
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You CAN put "-*", but then you would have to create a fairly large |
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packages.use in order to get a working system. That includes every |
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package listed in "emerge -pv world" with an entry. |
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Remove that option, start with minimal USE flags and reemerge world. |
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You're lucky you didn't try emerge -e system after that. |
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> and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I have |
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> broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it |
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> build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) and |
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> im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these |
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> systems to get things working right again? |
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You're lucky that you still have a working system after all. You even |
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get a working portage, so, nothing to worry about. Fix your flags and |
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reemerge world. |
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