From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PIIQV-0004TH-Kg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:06:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77EF2E071E; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:06:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E21DE071E for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:06:04 +0000 (UTC) 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 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0LBZ008502Q34R60@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:06:03 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,205,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="81356680" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:06:04 +0100 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id oAGA63k0013316 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:06:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5988B968 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:06:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:06:09 +0100 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to rebuild gentoo on a somewhat different hardware To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1289900014.10494.0@numa-i> <201011161156.30158.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-reply-to: <201011161156.30158.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.8 Message-id: <1289901969.10494.1@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: be77f156-2b11-4b27-b580-23bac9cd4c2d X-Archives-Hash: 4ca7f9600a9bc64061cd8081392d5f1a On 11/16/10 10:56:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Backup your portage related data and re-install. > > Seriously - you know you are looking at doing emerge -e world and > will > need to > fiddle stuff to make it complete successfully. > > If you just reinstall, put your old world file and /etc/portage/ back > then let > portage have at it, that is exactly what will happen. You'll have > 30-45 > minutes of setup work and a high level of confidence it will complete > successfully. > > Trying to fix the existing installation is potentially many hours of > poking > around to see what changed, potentially several goes at running > emerge > -e > world, hair pulling, and you will probably give up and just reinstall > anyway. > > I'm assuming you are looking for the easiest, fastest route to > success > with > the least pain, and that your days of poking into portage to see how > things > work for fun are long over. > Thanks Alan, just one more question: where are information like the current eselect(ions) stored? Helmut.