From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:01:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002140801.51064.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100213204339.7bf0b9f6@digimed.co.uk>
On Saturday 13 February 2010 22:43:39 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> > > 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
>
> Run conf-update and press a then d :)
But I'm a paranoid snarky old git and that doesn't work for me!
If I get 600 entries in conf-update I feel compelled to examine each one and
decide individually. Just in case....
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-14 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-12 19:55 [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 19:55 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-12 21:21 ` Kyle Bader
2010-02-12 22:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-13 7:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-13 20:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-14 6:01 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-02-14 9:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-14 11:03 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-14 11:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-20 12:08 ` Mick
2010-02-20 12:20 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-21 0:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-21 3:12 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-22 11:29 ` daid kahl
2010-02-22 13:56 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-22 17:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2010-02-26 7:29 ` daid kahl
2010-02-26 18:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2010-02-26 18:47 ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-27 1:02 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-12 23:46 ` William Kenworthy
2010-02-13 7:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-13 17:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-13 18:50 ` Stroller
2010-02-14 6:00 ` Alan McKinnon
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