From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:55:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100212195529.GD1560@muc.de> (raw)
Hi, Gentoo!
As reported in other threads, my new PC had a broken RAM stick in it.
As a result, an unknown proportion of installed binaries are flaky. One
non-functioning binary is probably GCC.
What I'd like to do is reinstall every binary, yet without erasing any
configuration info, whose creation was so arduous.
Where does portage keep it's list of installed packages? What do I have
to do to persuade portage it has _no_ installed packages before doing
'rm -rf *' in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin?
Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next reply other threads:[~2010-02-12 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-12 19:55 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2010-02-12 19:55 ` [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-12 21:21 ` Kyle Bader
2010-02-12 22:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-13 7:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-13 20:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-14 6:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-14 9:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-14 11:03 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-14 11:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-20 12:08 ` Mick
2010-02-20 12:20 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-21 0:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-21 3:12 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-22 11:29 ` daid kahl
2010-02-22 13:56 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-22 17:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2010-02-26 7:29 ` daid kahl
2010-02-26 18:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2010-02-26 18:47 ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-27 1:02 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-12 23:46 ` William Kenworthy
2010-02-13 7:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-13 17:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-13 18:50 ` Stroller
2010-02-14 6:00 ` Alan McKinnon
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