[gentoo-amd64] Re emerge apache.

[gentoo-amd64] Re emerge apache.

[Mark Haney]

I did something kind of stupid and FUBAR'd apache.  I am now trying to 
remove it and re-install it as if it were a new install.  What's the way 
to do it?  I have tried unmerge and re-emerged it, but no good.  Any ideas?

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re emerge apache.

[Craig Webster]

On 29 Nov 2005, at 14:24, Mark Haney wrote:
> I did something kind of stupid and FUBAR'd apache.  I am now trying  
> to remove it and re-install it as if it were a new install.  What's  
> the way to do it?  I have tried unmerge and re-emerged it, but no  
> good.  Any ideas?

What error does it give you? Have you tried deleting all the files  
after unmerging?

Yours,
Craig
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re emerge apache.

[Tres Melton]

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On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 09:24 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> I did something kind of stupid and FUBAR'd apache.  I am now trying to 
> remove it and re-install it as if it were a new install.  What's the way 
> to do it?  I have tried unmerge and re-emerged it, but no good.  Any ideas?
> 
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> Mark Haney
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> ERC Broadband
> (828) 350-2415
> 
Emerge thinks it is helping you by not removing any config files that
you have generated or altered (and I agree with it) so, "emerge -C
apache" and then remove the config files (or move them out of the way)
and then re-emerge it.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re emerge apache.

[Simon Stelling]

Hi,

Mark Haney wrote:
> I did something kind of stupid and FUBAR'd apache.  I am now trying to 
> remove it and re-install it as if it were a new install.  What's the way 
> to do it?  I have tried unmerge and re-emerged it, but no good.  Any ideas?

Portage has a somewhat questionable feature called "config 
protection"[1]. You've got to delete the config files (or better move 
them somewhere).

Regards,

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8423

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re emerge apache.

[Mark Haney]

Craig Webster wrote:

> On 29 Nov 2005, at 14:24, Mark Haney wrote:
>
>> I did something kind of stupid and FUBAR'd apache.  I am now trying  
>> to remove it and re-install it as if it were a new install.  What's  
>> the way to do it?  I have tried unmerge and re-emerged it, but no  
>> good.  Any ideas?
>
>
> What error does it give you? Have you tried deleting all the files  
> after unmerging?
>
> Yours,
> Craig
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>
>
>
That did it.  I thought I had removed all files left after unmerging, 
but apparently not.  I cleaned all that out I could find and now it 
works.  Thanks.


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