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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:03:49 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163876629.12470.142.camel@camille.espersunited.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611181957.49629.sp_rm_it@yahoo.it>

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 19:57 +0100, Sergio Polini wrote:
> Neil Bothwick:
> > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:00:09 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote:
> > > May I undo an emerge --sync?
> >
> > Only be restoring from a previously made backup or another computer
> > that you haven't synced yet.
> 
> I apologize for my delay.
> What have I to backup to be able to restore a previous sync?
> Are /usr/portage and /etc/conf.d enough?
> 
> Thanks
> Sergio

Theoretically, couldn't you just go to a Gentoo mirror and download a
portage snapshot from before you ran emerge --sync?

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-18 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-15 12:00 [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync Sergio Polini
2006-10-15 12:11 ` Mick
2006-10-15 13:59   ` Sergio Polini
2006-10-15 12:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-11-18 18:57   ` Sergio Polini
2006-11-18 19:03     ` Michael Sullivan [this message]
2006-11-18 19:33       ` Sergio Polini
2006-11-22 12:45         ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-15 15:18 ` Mark

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