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 1Ng1V9-0007Sy-Gq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:48:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 660B2E0AE9; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:48:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7D2E0AE9 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:48:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 64919 invoked by uid 3782); 12 Feb 2010 19:48:20 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E51034.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.16.52]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:48:18 +0100 Received: (qmail 2631 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Feb 2010 19:55:29 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:55:29 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? Message-ID: <20100212195529.GD1560@muc.de> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: bfdaca3f-92b4-42bb-9049-1dcd4810cddb X-Archives-Hash: 7d7b5d52ea2e9f71aed4874a003860d5 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).