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 1NgXZZ-00050W-5K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:03:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64E1FE06F9; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:02:50 +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 28930E06F9 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so4375713ewy.29 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:02:49 -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:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=JEHznDHzaIDj/0YKiK/TXM5nnnFsrOxdzamnLOccSe0=; b=JOBoGubF4uPg5fBKwKSDSdXZJRhXXnTO8TtVvOtHC1llfXIBF57d0H/gbjG5bBK+sM c06w7nTFgcQAwYkdPYwR5RwAlytFcWkZ6DAT2JfIYLiy1WgLkXVU5ykDq4e8Igmr0XV+ MGXgeL+S3rrgOYU/Y0q1RvD+Ypk7Q3zMv1ZSo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=IethP+c/jgUpBMD1VOljkjh1B8FtQwDpuRVWl0txsM2tITdjALNnwXVHO8J9eZU9hi yb0DJJeaWeI2R6ju/m6MtpUZjSzX6zNscDVOHaaWlHkTMrmNiGRQhDfAuX2M8SNP6Uvh nahJQL3JDnpPhB6PNsfkcTouCt6hWKIKbHqd8= Received: by 10.213.37.14 with SMTP id v14mr2475591ebd.28.1266127369506; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:02:49 -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 13sm3511731ewy.13.2010.02.13.22.02.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:02:48 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:00:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100212195529.GD1560@muc.de> <201002130927.15466.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100213175105.GB1783@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20100213175105.GB1783@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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002140800.34850.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 98f6716a-cfcc-4e53-9f89-ae40dfafa74b X-Archives-Hash: 90aba630487d64659f79446982e0c912 On Saturday 13 February 2010 19:51:05 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Thanks! In the end, I just used the gcc I had on the system anyway; it > wasn't broken. I first did 'emerge -e gcc', which took an hour, then did > 'emerge -e world', which took ~2 hours 30 mins. > > I was being a bit paranoid. The reason I "gave up" on the installation > CD was I failed to find out how to start my LVM2 voluble logics, or > whatever they're called. Oh yes, I forgot about that. I have old LiveCDs around too that don't support LVM. It can get bloody annoying when you forget and use it anyway. These days I use RIPLinux on a small spare USB stick as my rescue system > I'm now back on track, setting up my PC. Thanks! > > > The paranoid might want to emerge gcc itself on it's own first so that > > rebuilding world is done with the same gcc version as what it will > > become (gcc is not built first when you rebuild world, all sort of > > toolchain tools and parsers are earlier in the list). Personally, I > > don't do that - there is an actual chance that using an old compiler to > > build a new compiler may lead to incompatibility issues, but the risk > > is extremely small and rare, and it's never bitten me. > > There was that apocryphal tale of the origianl Unix hacker who hardwired > a backdoor login into the system, and hacked cc to keep inserting the > backdoor each time the system was built, and to keep this hack in cc each > time cc was compiled. Whew! That's not a myth either :-) There was a story on /. about that very thing just the other day! -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com