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On 7 March 2017 at 19:38, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Please don't top post, it is disliked on this list. |
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Sorry - a consequence of moving away from a proper mail client, and on to a |
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web-based thing. |
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> If you copied over /var/db/pkg you have a rather confused and messed up |
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> system. The safest way to recreate it is probably to move the pkg |
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> directory elsewhere and then run "emerge -e @world". |
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Yep! I think that would be a polite way of putting it! ;) |
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> gcc is slotted, so emerging 4.9.4 will not touch your 5.4.0 installation, |
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> you use gcc-config to choose which one to use. What does gcc-config -l |
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> show? |
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Just the one line: |
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[1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.9.4 |
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I *think*, that with little time and patience, I can now sort this out. |
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Thanks for the emerge -e hint. It doesn't seem to be in the emerge man |
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page, though. What is the long-option name? |
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Kind regards, |
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Phil |