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 1NgXad-00056l-T7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:04:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D8BAE084B; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:04:06 +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 52206E086C for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:04:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so4376180ewy.29 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:04:05 -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=fyl7Zdj+w/qQUj38RTrdd5+2+D1/UfOZi3khCA4y5uY=; b=oxZUEF2st/57GrmIFWfSLeb3/JD7xSlJ60szt5ZSp7+dvt96YPtht2dfryAn47qyc4 BY6Wxw3b5fATwQ99T3wAeQ98UrmfvvcYmtFRYzYsNuMQxq5Fd4JueF/ucnKn+DpSGltL 1wL9mYal2qVaX5vTsYntYUnTlSsHEZZgzSWng= 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=f2LxNC8mh2KFAdlDsjeknBHROiFH3x5q9vFO2lyL4T4/NKfx3Hke6hOzf6U+5qIxqf FBZMja2bwZet7bmjCegl0gK/VOyM2+dSQKCEt9p6Hw3GFBaKtkY7591appDviuzQEdRK tvaLmOk64SydbARDAL7MYLuvIKwvvyRzYTYhI= Received: by 10.213.100.165 with SMTP id y37mr1473339ebn.71.1266127445794; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:04:05 -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 16sm3523774ewy.10.2010.02.13.22.04.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:04:04 -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 08:01:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100212195529.GD1560@muc.de> <201002130928.57649.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100213204339.7bf0b9f6@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100213204339.7bf0b9f6@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: <201002140801.51064.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 51d77ed8-83c2-4789-a496-55ce1c04b48f X-Archives-Hash: 7d4b5ac54fbddc9af546af997db99579 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