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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>>> tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but no |
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>>> joy. So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and |
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>>> recompile the packages from scratch? |
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>> You could try `emerge -ep xorg-x11`. |
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> I guess what I would do in your situation would be to just nuke everything in |
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> the x11 categories: |
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> # grep x11 /var/lib/portage/world |
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> # cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -Cva x11*/* |
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> The first gets a list of the x11 packages that you had in your world file. The |
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> second removes all of it. Then I would emerge modular X.org again and make |
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> sure not to overwrite it by emerging monolithic X.org. |
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That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg stuff. |
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You can grab a list of all modular X packages at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt and |
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run this: |
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emerge -1 $(<modular-x-packages.txt) |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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