Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Marius Vaitiekunas <mariusvaitiekunas@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to rebuild gentoo on a somewhat different hardware
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:28:21
Message-Id: AANLkTimBP+T2F0OZXnTAeru-Y7+=5PsC1NHHBa3V=hy+@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how to rebuild gentoo on a somewhat different hardware by Helmut Jarausch
1 Hello,
2
3 I think You could try:
4 1) change cflags in make.conf
5 2) bootstrap.sh
6 3) emerge -e system
7 4) emerge -e world
8
9 In other words this is how to build a system from stage 1.
10
11 On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Helmut Jarausch <
12 jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
13
14 > On 11/16/10 10:56:29, Alan McKinnon wrote:
15 > >
16 > > Backup your portage related data and re-install.
17 > >
18 > > Seriously - you know you are looking at doing emerge -e world and
19 > > will
20 > > need to
21 > > fiddle stuff to make it complete successfully.
22 > >
23 > > If you just reinstall, put your old world file and /etc/portage/ back
24 > > then let
25 > > portage have at it, that is exactly what will happen. You'll have
26 > > 30-45
27 > > minutes of setup work and a high level of confidence it will complete
28 > > successfully.
29 > >
30 > > Trying to fix the existing installation is potentially many hours of
31 > > poking
32 > > around to see what changed, potentially several goes at running
33 > > emerge
34 > > -e
35 > > world, hair pulling, and you will probably give up and just reinstall
36 > > anyway.
37 > >
38 > > I'm assuming you are looking for the easiest, fastest route to
39 > > success
40 > > with
41 > > the least pain, and that your days of poking into portage to see how
42 > > things
43 > > work for fun are long over.
44 > >
45 >
46 > Thanks Alan,
47 >
48 > just one more question: where are information like the
49 > current eselect(ions) stored?
50 >
51 > Helmut.
52 >
53 >
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57 mv