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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unmerged linux headers
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:14:03
Message-Id: 51FBB091.2090804@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] unmerged linux headers by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On 02/08/2013 13:46, ciinder@×××××××.com wrote:
3 >> Hello! I got confused and unmerged linux-headers. Now I can't merge
4 >> anything. Is there any way to recover?
5 >>
6 >>
7 >>
8 > Find a backup of linux-headers somewhere[1] and untar it.
9 >
10 > Then you can emerge again, starting with linux-headers of course
11 >
12 > [1] there's many places you can have backups
13 >
14 > - something you made yourself
15 > - off a recent install cd
16 > - someone here can mail you a tarball
17 >
18 > but the best of all is to put "buildsyspkg" in make.conf, this makes
19 > backups of all @system packages as they are merged and puts them in
20 > /var/packages.
21 >
22 > @system packages are the only things that can really nuke your ability
23 > to merge stuff (assuming you don't also nuke python or tar - that is
24 > catastrophic)
25 >
26 >
27
28
29 I have this if it will help:
30
31 root@fireball / # ls -al
32 /var/cache/portage/packages/sys-kernel/linux-headers-3.7.tbz2
33 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 665780 Jun 25 12:16
34 /var/cache/portage/packages/sys-kernel/linux-headers-3.7.tbz2
35 root@fireball / #
36
37 I'd be glad to email it off list, unless someone else beats me to it.
38
39 Dale
40
41 :-) :-)
42
43 --
44 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!