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From: Daniel Wagener <stelf@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:01:41
Message-Id: 20120920074413.0ae7ab34.stelf@gmx.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:44:33 -0500
2 Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:53:41 -0400
6 > > Andrey Moshbear <andrey.vul@×××××.com> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras
9 > >> <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
10 > >> > On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote:
11 > >> >>
12 > >> >> Hello,
13 > >> >> because I broke me PC and I need to reinstall it I'm going ask what
14 > >> >> should I preserve to make install faster:
15 > >> >
16 > >> > So what *is* broken? The hardware? If you have a new PC, you
17 > >> > simply need to transfer your Gentoo install to a new hard disk
18 > >> > using rsync.
19 > >>
20 > >> He borked his /usr/include due to an improperly-written uninstall rule
21 > >> in a Makefile.
22 > >>
23 > >
24 > > if "emerge -e world" runs, it will fix that little oopsie
25 >
26 > No, it won't; if enough files from /usr/include are gone/borked, most
27 > packages will fail compilation. glibc alone has ~450 files under
28 > /usr/include; and basically everything depends on glibc.
29
30 hmm, my approach in that case would be to get /usr from a recent stage3 tarball and then running emerge -e world
31
32 but maybe there is a reason why nobody came up with that already :-/
33
34 --

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>