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Timothy A. Holmes wrote: |
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>> On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>> Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: |
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>>> I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo |
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>>> installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, |
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> and |
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>>> a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize |
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> them |
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>>> for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad |
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>> genkernel does not use USE flags, so, that's not related, probably. |
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>> Someone will tell if I'm wrong. |
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>>> understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all |
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> the |
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>>> use flags, changed them to: |
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>>> USE="-*" |
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>> Heh, once I tried that... Its better leave it empty than putting this. |
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>> You CAN put "-*", but then you would have to create a fairly large |
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>> packages.use in order to get a working system. That includes every |
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>> package listed in "emerge -pv world" with an entry. |
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>> Remove that option, start with minimal USE flags and reemerge world. |
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>> You're lucky you didn't try emerge -e system after that. |
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>>> and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I |
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> have |
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>>> broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it |
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>>> build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) |
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> and |
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>>> im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these |
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>>> systems to get things working right again? |
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>> You're lucky that you still have a working system after all. You even |
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>> get a working portage, so, nothing to worry about. Fix your flags and |
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>> reemerge world. |
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> [Timothy A. Holmes] |
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> Turns out all 5 systems are totally broke - I will be rebuilding all of |
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> them -- |
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> If anyone can suggest a good set of minimal use flags, I would be most |
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> thankful |
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> Tim |
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I would start with the defaults, eg. leave USE="" (blank) in make.conf |
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and then start editing package.use to modify them from there. type |
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emerge --info to see ALL of the use flags that are being used |
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> Timothy A. Holmes |
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> IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher |
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> Medina Christian Academy |
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> A Higher Standard... |
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> Jeremiah 33:3 |
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> Jeremiah 29:11 |
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> Esther 4:14 |
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Jeremy Olexa |
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(olexa@××××××.edu) |
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Office: EE/CS 1-201 |
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CS/IT Systems Staff |
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University of Minnesota |
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