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 1Ng4OJ-000348-MR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:53:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13968E08DB; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:52:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9919E08DB for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A6A605E30B5 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:52:42 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:52:32 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? Message-ID: <20100212225232.5e66df86@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <854dca5c1002121321g7542bd94o69011498b81e2067@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100212195529.GD1560@muc.de> <201002122055.48318.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <854dca5c1002121321g7542bd94o69011498b81e2067@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs18 (GTK+ 2.18.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/v9H2GP87AwyRR/ZGUCnViFm"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ea080070-a0a6-4f0c-bd5b-1149cf927218 X-Archives-Hash: 1d877048524aa9ba25efb8a3e3a2c3c9 --Sig_/v9H2GP87AwyRR/ZGUCnViFm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:21:18 -0800, Kyle Bader wrote: > >> Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation? =20 > > > > tar up /etc. =20 >=20 > Make sure the tar can extract on another system. Backups that haven't > been tested are not backups! :D /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do just what the OP wants, rebuild everything without touching the configs. Of course, a backup of /etc is always a handy thing to have around anyway, --=20 Neil Bothwick In the begining, there was nothing. --Sig_/v9H2GP87AwyRR/ZGUCnViFm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkt127gACgkQum4al0N1GQNVDACg1hg6llbM9fe97UtyClWCviSY WUIAnA2/4m1NZTgQ0xEeiI/7ZKQUKT+D =lerd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/v9H2GP87AwyRR/ZGUCnViFm--