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On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:44:37 pm Justin wrote: |
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> Jeff Cranmer schrieb: |
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> > On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote: |
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> >> Jeff Cranmer schrieb: |
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> >>> I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept |
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> >>> keywords |
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> >> |
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> >> reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out |
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> >> there. Your system is broken and fixing takes the same effort than |
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> >> reinstalling. |
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> > |
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> > Except reinstalling raises the specter of losing all my key data. The |
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> > guides are written for a blank system. That is not what I have. The |
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> > problem is with glibc. Why can't I fix glibc and then to an emerge -eav |
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> > from there? |
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> > |
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> > Jeff |
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> |
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> boot livecd, mount the disc as described in the official manuals [1], |
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> extract a propriate tarball, remove all /etc/portage/packages*, review |
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> make.conf, emerge -e system, will bring back your system. |
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OK - since I'm no gentoo expert, I need to define the exact procedure here |
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before I'm going to attempt this, so I have a number of questions: |
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(1) If I remove /etc/portage/packages*, nothing will be removed, as nothing |
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matches that search string, so what exactly should I be removing? Do you |
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mean remove the entire contents of /etc/portage? If I do this, I'll lose all |
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the package.use, keywords, mask information that I have set up. Why is this |
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necessary? It seems that this will just break my system further. |
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(2) In my system, swap is /dev/sda2, boot is /dev/sda5, and root is /dev/sda3 |
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I should skip the fdisk commands, then |
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swapon /dev/sda2 |
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mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo |
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mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/gentoo/boot |
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cd /mnt/gentoo |
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Is this correct? |
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(3) After extracting the stage3 tarball for an amd64 system, downloaded using |
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links http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml |
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with the command |
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tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2, I can then proced with editing make.conf, as I |
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don't need to reinstall a portage snapshot (since I already have one set up |
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from my present install). |
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Is this correct? |
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(4) After editing the make.conf file, verifying that it is correct for a 64 |
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bit system, I then can run the command |
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emerge -e world, and everything should compile correctly? |
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(5) With this method, I will not lose any other key settings such as video, |
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kde etc. |
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Is this correct? |
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Jeff |
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