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> On March 14, 2015 at 6:12 PM Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in |
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> Gentoo: |
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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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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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You have lost nothing, thanks to gentoolkit. Please run "enalyze rebuild use" |
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and you will get package.use.test which will be the difference between default |
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USE flags and yours. Then "mv package.use.test /etc/portage/package.use" will |
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put you back in business. |
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