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Apparently, though unproven, at 12:06 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Helmut |
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Jarausch did opine thusly: |
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> On 11/16/10 10:56:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Backup your portage related data and re-install. |
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> > Seriously - you know you are looking at doing emerge -e world and |
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> > will |
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> > need to |
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> > fiddle stuff to make it complete successfully. |
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> > If you just reinstall, put your old world file and /etc/portage/ back |
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> > then let |
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> > portage have at it, that is exactly what will happen. You'll have |
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> > 30-45 |
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> > minutes of setup work and a high level of confidence it will complete |
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> > successfully. |
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> > |
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> > Trying to fix the existing installation is potentially many hours of |
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> > poking |
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> > around to see what changed, potentially several goes at running |
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> > emerge |
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> > -e |
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> > world, hair pulling, and you will probably give up and just reinstall |
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> > anyway. |
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> > I'm assuming you are looking for the easiest, fastest route to |
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> > success |
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> > with |
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> > the least pain, and that your days of poking into portage to see how |
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> > things |
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> > work for fun are long over. |
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> Thanks Alan, |
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> just one more question: where are information like the |
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> current eselect(ions) stored? |
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I've never found a place where eselect stores it's info. I suspect it directly |
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reads all the various symlinks off disk when it starts up. If so, this will |
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cause you some extra manual work. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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