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On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> I delete package.use and have no backup |
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> Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the |
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> long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking |
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> USE, then see all the flags that portage thinks changed. |
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> I wonder if there might be an easier way that I don't know of. |
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I can't think of an approach any better than what you're doing. But |
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console yourself with the thought that you will only ever have to do this |
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once, because you'll always backup /etc/portage from now on. |
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BTW having backups is no protection against ID-ten-T errors. I no longer |
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use BackupPC so decided to delete my backuppc subvolume last week, and |
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used tab completion, not noticing that it completed on backup until an |
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ohnosecond before hittng enter. |
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I wondered why the backuppc volume was still listed, then I wondered why |
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it was listed first, then I cried. |
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