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On 15/03/2015 01:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> I delete package.use and have no backup |
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>> Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the |
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>> long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking |
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>> USE, then see all the flags that portage thinks changed. |
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>> I wonder if there might be an easier way that I don't know of. |
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> I can't think of an approach any better than what you're doing. But |
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> console yourself with the thought that you will only ever have to do this |
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> once, because you'll always backup /etc/portage from now on. |
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That's what I thought.... oh well... |
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> BTW having backups is no protection against ID-ten-T errors. I no longer |
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> use BackupPC so decided to delete my backuppc subvolume last week, and |
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> used tab completion, not noticing that it completed on backup until an |
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> ohnosecond before hittng enter. |
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> I wondered why the backuppc volume was still listed, then I wondered why |
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> it was listed first, then I cried. |
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ooooooooh, nasty. We've all done things like that. |
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My favourite is the time I was trying to run fsck/repair an ext3 volume |
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and was getting strange errors, which I didn't take time to understand. |
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Being tired and lazy, I confused --force with RTFM. |
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Then I noticed it was actually a reiser volume. |
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One customer machine. Ruined. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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