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On 15/03/2015 16:45, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: |
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>> On March 14, 2015 at 6:12 PM Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in |
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>> Gentoo: |
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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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>> Alan McKinnon |
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>> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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> You have lost nothing, thanks to gentoolkit. Please run "enalyze rebuild use" |
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> and you will get package.use.test which will be the difference between default |
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> USE flags and yours. Then "mv package.use.test /etc/portage/package.use" will |
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> put you back in business. |
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Good find, hopefully I'll never need it again :-) |
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As luck would have it, I'd already finished reconstructing the file |
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manually the long way round - took about 3 hours. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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