From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DD55E158090 for ; Wed, 11 May 2022 11:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34828E0918; Wed, 11 May 2022 11:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw.thundermail.uk (mail-gw.thundermail.uk [149.255.60.72]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46179E08F3 for ; Wed, 11 May 2022 11:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailgw01.thundermail.uk (mail-gw.thundermail.uk [149.255.60.66]) by mail-gw.thundermail.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8DF7600F3FA for ; Wed, 11 May 2022 12:07:01 +0100 (BST) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1652267220-05541354ae3759800001-LfjuLa Received: from cloud220.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk (cloud220.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk [149.255.60.183]) by mailgw01.thundermail.uk with ESMTP id pSCFOyzxfcUnq7xp (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 11 May 2022 12:07:00 +0100 (BST) X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: confabulate@kintzios.com X-Barracuda-Effective-Source-IP: cloud220.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk[149.255.60.183] X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 149.255.60.183 Received: from lenovo.localdomain (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by cloud220.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15F06C73A8A for ; Wed, 11 May 2022 12:07:00 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kintzios.com; s=default; t=1652267220; bh=taNy35pXyWm20W+7ub76S9Qlt6sKnxhrD0M/Ok6MHV4=; h=From:To:Subject; b=gi1Xm+/JExoTGz0agTFWFNpo8HU2PE2F0vgI14UEsDuRt5tbKFIGlcR2x9WCCiJuC J36KQpj9h8VE4SBDfSgBrTI4C2R8dQcbRAY6esMe2t8wAvbqsdH04FxfqLHFxNdoPi ewWWPQdlWdtg8O5VJcGDXL8fS954xb/ZtPSpserc= From: Michael To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 12:06:36 +0100 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Message-ID: <11978982.O9o76ZdvQC@lenovo.localdomain> In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5569221.DvuYhMxLoT"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-PPP-Message-ID: <20220511110700.2704904.68265@cloud220.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk> X-PPP-Vhost: kintzios.com X-Barracuda-Connect: cloud220.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk[149.255.60.183] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1652267220 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 X-Barracuda-URL: https://149.255.60.66:443/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at thundermail.uk X-Barracuda-Scan-Msg-Size: 1376 X-Barracuda-BRTS-Status: 1 X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=1.9 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.3.97932 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Archives-Salt: 19fbe50b-8e9b-4532-a385-02ad896cb091 X-Archives-Hash: 916a420f7401908cda7e7bed3fe2629a --nextPart5569221.DvuYhMxLoT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; protected-headers="v1" From: Michael To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: confabulate@kintzios.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 12:06:36 +0100 Message-ID: <11978982.O9o76ZdvQC@lenovo.localdomain> On Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:57:03 BST Francisco Ares wrote: > Hello > > After a main HD failure, I'll have to reinstall Gentoo from almost zero - I > have a full and recent copy of the /etc directory and the file > /var/lib/portage/world in a secondary HD (along many personal backups). > > Installation basics done, now it is time for an emerge world. > > Although the emerge lists is as huge as expected, it doesn't even start, > portage says there are cyclic USE flags that I should avoid at the first > moment, but may restore afterwards. > > But it doesn't say which are those USE flags that block each other. > > Is there any way to find those better than brute force? > > By the way, I also have a copy of all binary packages (I always use the -b > flag while emerging any package) in that second disk. But that didn't help > so far, even trying to use the -K flag. I thought on un-tar'ing those > binary packages by hand, but portage will be unaware of this, not knowing > the packages are installed. > > Any hint will be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks > > Francisco Try emerging @system first and see if this succeeds. I recall something similar on a recent fresh (re)installation, but the USE flags causing the circular block were reported in the emerge output, so I was able to unset and reset them at the time. --nextPart5569221.DvuYhMxLoT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. 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