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 1MbDJ9-0003wJ-MX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:52:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 029C6E02A1; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f210.google.com (mail-ew0-f210.google.com [209.85.219.210]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1359E02A1 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:51:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so2721276ewy.34 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:51:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=UQlrQO60gvczXz5Y3j4AssWQxIAo8Bjc930O/y3tV4w=; b=Pr0vk45RCmSV/Y2Udf0g8b2l7ZrAzKQRZzPyqqUZPudCDOHVjgqM/GBqwGRhEBhAkU 8pJfCzckmn9cLP5ylN4MnsT1I4u+bwh1NIPkDZPDTxC9ZeSTwloEyonExtNSQPRgg93t wkulGns1aFpTfom8m2q4I5zhewggu6VgEkhwc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=YhRGmLVjvPwtZW4sIIpfb9J8XY3ZPI9YDH5HgBzZj+vJO1H201ePbDG44w0ew663Xc CauxDsuISMlzLM6p41K3/sZuHlFM7oToijbu+Xvu/A+IRWe2WKiaOiJZsrjQwvNswKoi 1yQHONf6eZfHWtBUpTe178QG1bMcvht7ezyO4= Received: by 10.210.68.18 with SMTP id q18mr139502eba.1.1250081517151; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:51:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm289709eyx.53.2009.08.12.05.51.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:51:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:51:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.30.4r4; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <7bef1f890908112213r5a7e08a4k7703ca14a9d9bcfb@mail.gmail.com> <200908121328.53856.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> In-Reply-To: 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-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908121451.53044.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d933ed82-f541-41a4-94f6-b95f4c9ce166 X-Archives-Hash: 68aa82fb3c5ea15a612e546a8f0f78d0 On Mittwoch 12 August 2009, Ward Poelmans wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:28, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > >> Any advice on this kind of situation? I would rather not buy a "backup > >> laptop". > > > > Keeping the previous (working) kernel, and having a rescue disk around > > usually is enough to fix most kinds of breakages. Also building binary > > packages is useful for quickly restored broken packages > > (FEATURES=buildpkg or something like that in make.conf). > > Ubuntu on a USB drive is very helpfull in all kinds of situations ;-) > And it's a lot cheaper then a backup laptop. > > Ward systemrescuecd is even more helpfull