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 1NgOqw-0004Ul-Fv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:44:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6890E07C3; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:43:49 +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 9B8B4E07C3 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:43:49 +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 E4CBC5D2A27 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:43:48 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:43:39 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? Message-ID: <20100213204339.7bf0b9f6@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201002130928.57649.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <20100212195529.GD1560@muc.de> <854dca5c1002121321g7542bd94o69011498b81e2067@mail.gmail.com> <20100212225232.5e66df86@digimed.co.uk> <201002130928.57649.alan.mckinnon@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_/oOgTsCkzhLcYoBQE2LmLCxM"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 53c7af32-a149-4050-aa47-22065b4c4d78 X-Archives-Hash: 67007dfffc7bd3a0ed93e01e4862250f --Sig_/oOgTsCkzhLcYoBQE2LmLCxM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:28:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do just what the OP > > wants, rebuild everything without touching the configs. > >=20 > > Of course, a backup of /etc is always a handy thing to have around > > anyway, =20 >=20 > For this case, it's probably easier to just tar /etc/ and untar it back > later. >=20 > The OP then doesn't have to deal with 600+ conf-update complaints Run conf-update and press a then d :) --=20 Neil Bothwick I've got a mind like a... a... what's that thing called? --Sig_/oOgTsCkzhLcYoBQE2LmLCxM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkt3DwMACgkQum4al0N1GQOsiwCgnws3OU/jnTKO+cRgw2gIdzYY r6QAn3J9poumgUUxJyLzQgcCxFwgGAC/ =Q88O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/oOgTsCkzhLcYoBQE2LmLCxM--