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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering installed files after hard drive replacement (was LVM Recovery....)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:04:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081027140427.494cd9e2@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <108801.63981.qm@web65406.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>

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On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:50:25 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote:

> Any how...I had /opt and /usr/local mapped to the VG - they were the
> only parts of the VG that were lost. I know some stuff was installed
> to /opt at the very least (at least java, and netscape extensions).
> 
> So, are there any existing tools that will detect missing installed
> files and rebuild those specific builds? Otherwise, I might try to
> write a script to do it, but I'd prefer something that already exists.

You shouldn't have anything from portage in /usr/local. You could use
qcheck --all --quiet to find packages that have changed or missing files,
then qfile on those packages to see if they install to /opt.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with
grease, your nose will begin to itch.

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-27 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-18 21:31 [gentoo-user] LVM Recovery BRM
2008-10-27 13:50 ` [gentoo-user] Recovering installed files after hard drive replacement (was LVM Recovery....) BRM
2008-10-27 14:04   ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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