From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fx8sm-0000ZB-J4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:49:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k62KmKQB001332; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 20:48:20 GMT Received: from zaz.kom.auc.dk (zaz.kom.auc.dk [130.225.51.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k62KcJDq021876 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 20:38:19 GMT Received: from pc163-c.stud.ies.auc.dk ([10.8.12.163]) by zaz.kom.auc.dk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #3) id 1Fx8hv-00055R-00 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 22:38:19 +0200 From: Bo =?utf-8?q?=C3=98rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 22:39:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200607021124.10952.gentoo@matthewlee.org> <44A81C4C.6070004@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <44A81C4C.6070004@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart28101826.2dekHAjsHe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200607022239.22629.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: 2ee45f00-733a-4802-87ce-cf765a6a8c5e X-Archives-Hash: 378a67292f33c20a8f11465af197834d --nextPart28101826.2dekHAjsHe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but no > > joy. =C2=A0 So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and > > recompile the packages from scratch? > > You could try `emerge -ep xorg-x11`. I guess what I would do in your situation would be to just nuke everything = in=20 the x11 categories: # grep x11 /var/lib/portage/world # cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -Cva x11*/* The first gets a list of the x11 packages that you had in your world file. = The=20 second removes all of it. Then I would emerge modular X.org again and make= =20 sure not to overwrite it by emerging monolithic X.org. =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart28101826.2dekHAjsHe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEqC768/kKEzmwNNoRAlaqAJ0fRhSqmL9yMVWPcLhlSM3ejVItagCcC1KF hnWAiFSdcBLAPT74iEaxZCk= =XXHk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart28101826.2dekHAjsHe-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list