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 1NgCTe-0001pp-Vt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:31:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02446E087A; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f216.google.com (mail-ew0-f216.google.com [209.85.219.216]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B71E087A for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so3623242ewy.29 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:31:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=21r82O+6aGm0K/xyUK4cWJFMajj8laEZlHhGA8R3SB8=; b=aI9ZTU1wVGSVMBnGiyritFrdfZ25Rr87b1TdUFpMF7tNAWdC/bICC2MfzrVI8tRXZI nKaBo5PcpeM7bwdCHCTeSvDOFsn6NuvYSNnMNDDIFsdnUKpFPXU2jMT7LYrV5JHnh63A uR4R5wHk8s2qJxJzW2FJuhpZivd0MR3vwJjZg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=BEowlds5rK+2+MP3DSFkKrWHPzKcct/5kC3t1IV4jSKCub9wV6VIczMJjO0J+itCKa r6cf/jOjDt9EZh00Kc+/7jIHbzWIAw+NqbjkPPURI2WNvf1n7wTYW7TBf9XQJzqEvBc3 IslEJJFDRUK8BINi+NLzPIAEiE/lK6+G8YHIY= Received: by 10.213.97.85 with SMTP id k21mr798456ebn.79.1266046269187; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:31:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-238-65.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.238.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm2837900ewy.0.2010.02.12.23.31.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:31:08 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:28:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Neil Bothwick References: <20100212195529.GD1560@muc.de> <854dca5c1002121321g7542bd94o69011498b81e2067@mail.gmail.com> <20100212225232.5e66df86@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100212225232.5e66df86@digimed.co.uk> 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: <201002130928.57649.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 337313dd-d3e8-42ec-aec1-0fa05f573eca X-Archives-Hash: 5c56a13165862cf779fca0d754f79ba9 On Saturday 13 February 2010 00:52:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:21:18 -0800, Kyle Bader wrote: > > >> Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation? > > > > > > tar up /etc. > > > > 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, For this case, it's probably easier to just tar /etc/ and untar it back later. The OP then doesn't have to deal with 600+ conf-update complaints -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com