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On Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:57:03 BST Francisco Ares wrote: |
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> Hello |
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> After a main HD failure, I'll have to reinstall Gentoo from almost zero - I |
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> have a full and recent copy of the /etc directory and the file |
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> /var/lib/portage/world in a secondary HD (along many personal backups). |
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> Installation basics done, now it is time for an emerge world. |
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> Although the emerge lists is as huge as expected, it doesn't even start, |
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> portage says there are cyclic USE flags that I should avoid at the first |
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> moment, but may restore afterwards. |
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> But it doesn't say which are those USE flags that block each other. |
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> Is there any way to find those better than brute force? |
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> By the way, I also have a copy of all binary packages (I always use the -b |
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> flag while emerging any package) in that second disk. But that didn't help |
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> so far, even trying to use the -K flag. I thought on un-tar'ing those |
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> binary packages by hand, but portage will be unaware of this, not knowing |
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> the packages are installed. |
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> Any hint will be greatly appreciated! |
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> Thanks |
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> Francisco |
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Try emerging @system first and see if this succeeds. I recall something |
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similar on a recent fresh (re)installation, but the USE flags causing the |
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circular block were reported in the emerge output, so I was able to unset and |
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reset them at the time. |
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