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 1PIMBf-0008Qa-A5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:07:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A92DE07FB; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:06:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D82FE0877 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:06:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so274599ewy.40 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:06:28 -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=KQoiij/QPwYJ+8YOlJW87C75dyYiWpNxbA6U8YQ3wgo=; b=XuhKfkpXA3RRZbxMOH13hIeR6grmWcUBsUUUJkHw54ZFsymp+l58cxDviVPf1kVRej I2yuZIib4kqA0ab9PJzKqKbqowAQZGZ5BnwuACnqjLeM3/JZXTTtqVyNReHELXvOA9k6 XGhDr55BE2EAGRFgI9r9vVdSaYmAKxd75ZNqU= 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=lb9ZKyx94XahS0zD5lvOUywJ5N0b97p/Vtl2E7no+5U6N6duxHJGZ8dGbJFQPgbqMX ybwfl9ZbFYOSA5sTM8EJtGnJDaM0DKZABAigFa43TvdRreh1rlyj10zI6/LnPegSgu3V s9e9/VT6dJm1lCGd40XpXpxEUWJJ9AFZT2388= Received: by 10.213.29.133 with SMTP id q5mr363739ebc.66.1289916388578; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:06:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q58sm1154127eeh.9.2010.11.16.06.06.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:06:27 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to rebuild gentoo on a somewhat different hardware Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:06:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck; KDE/4.5.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <1289900014.10494.0@numa-i> <201011161156.30158.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1289901969.10494.1@numa-i> In-Reply-To: <1289901969.10494.1@numa-i> 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: <201011161606.58058.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 8c85ac1d-7ece-4ffb-97ce-c6fdfa628aa9 X-Archives-Hash: dc0f03fd92f2abc087221dd363247def Apparently, though unproven, at 12:06 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Helmut Jarausch did opine thusly: > On 11/16/10 10:56:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Backup your portage related data and re-install. > > > > Seriously - you know you are looking at doing emerge -e world and > > will > > need to > > fiddle stuff to make it complete successfully. > > > > If you just reinstall, put your old world file and /etc/portage/ back > > then let > > portage have at it, that is exactly what will happen. You'll have > > 30-45 > > minutes of setup work and a high level of confidence it will complete > > successfully. > > > > Trying to fix the existing installation is potentially many hours of > > poking > > around to see what changed, potentially several goes at running > > emerge > > -e > > world, hair pulling, and you will probably give up and just reinstall > > anyway. > > > > I'm assuming you are looking for the easiest, fastest route to > > success > > with > > the least pain, and that your days of poking into portage to see how > > things > > work for fun are long over. > > Thanks Alan, > > just one more question: where are information like the > current eselect(ions) stored? I've never found a place where eselect stores it's info. I suspect it directly reads all the various symlinks off disk when it starts up. If so, this will cause you some extra manual work. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com