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On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Matthew R. Lee wrote: |
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> > is done. I wasn't convinced, however I tried rebooting. No X, so I |
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> > logged in and issued 'startx', nothing so I checked '/usr/bin/startx', |
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> > it's not there, clearly it hadn't installed x So back to |
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> > xorg-x11-6.8.2.-r8. I've |
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> This is a really weird issue that's been coming up, where the packages |
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> are "installed" but files are missing. What filesystem(s) are you using? |
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> > tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but no |
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> > joy. So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and |
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> > recompile the packages from scratch? |
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> You could try `emerge -ep xorg-x11`. |
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When user upgrades to modular X.org there is a block that requires him to |
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remove xorg-x11-6.8*. Then the user upgrades, reboots and finds out there is |
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something wrong. So he downgrades. But when downgrading there is no block |
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requiring him to remove modular X first. So he merges xorg-x11-6.8 which |
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overwrites a *LOT* of modular X files like e.g. startx and only unmerges |
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xorg-x11-7.0 which is a very small package. Now the user decides to upgrade |
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again so he unmerges xorg-x11-6.8 again and it removes all the files but |
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portage still thinks modular X is installed except of xorg-x11-7*. So when he |
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emerges xorg-x11-7* that package is the only one which is remerged... |
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Bo Andresen |
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