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On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:41:39 -0300 |
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Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I have managed to delete /var/db. I know this was a very stupid thing |
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> to be done, but now it is done and /var/db is gone for good. |
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> Well, that is a good opportunity to have everything built again, time |
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> to try new CFLAGS, and so on. |
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> But there is a circular dependency that I do not know how to get rid |
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> of: "glibc" and "gcc" depend on each other. They are both here, but |
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> portage does not know that. |
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> How am I supposed to go on? |
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> By the way, I have a Pentium Core 2 Quad and I am using a "x86" |
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> profile. How would I switch to a "amd64" ? As far as I know, my |
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> processor is capable of this. |
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As Michael replied elsewhere, this is hard. It may even be almost |
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impossible and it's definitely not trivial. |
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You intend to rebuild everything anyway, I would recommend you install |
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over the old system and retain /etc/portage and the world file. Then |
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emerge -e world. |
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This will take you about 30 minutes longer than rebuilding world if you |
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hadn't taken out /var/db - one of the few cases where a re-install |
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really is the correct thing to do. Good luck. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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