Re: [gentoo-user] install problems

[Jude DaShiell]

Emerge --info|grep fail-clean is not set.

On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Michael wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 07:31:57
> From: Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>
> Reply-To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] install problems
>
> Hi Jude,
>
> On Friday, 2 October 2020 12:21:06 BST Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > I made another mistake and need to find the exit.
> > I did emerge sys-libs/timezone-data which downloaded that package and
> > dependencies and then errored out badly when trying to build the packages.
> > The native in COMMON_FLAGS in /etc/portage/make.conf was not recognized by
> > what I downloaded and that emanated several more errors.
> > Will it be possible to wipe out the last emerge effects on the system?
>
> If an emerge did not complete successfully and came up with an error, then it
> would not have installed anything on your system.  Whatever emerge built may
> have been left under /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/timezone-data, unless 'fail-
> clean' is not specified in your FEATURES.
>
>  emerge --info | grep fail-clean
>
> will show if it is set or not.

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