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 1R2TuK-0000mL-9Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:12:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17C1621C159; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:11:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 577A221C112 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:10:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg14 with SMTP id 14so1265680wwg.10 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:10:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Pn5VR4+tzFBhbgAEN9AuVOUpSLrKnhaRBy4cERIG9ic=; b=mrHQi/AwiX9rf/Zsd+vul/KCWI6S8putup6EJjzVqo9yJJJdV5Rr6OGiKxUI6QwjHR gacV1FxK+YjvAH6gwf0uI99+niAzjnSL1JwpgvVo+VbY6dijU/pj42ug+Z3DgPVWhfSw IZ1IcgfXlDqJ3g/cv9o04lzYms+bffi68Qclk= Received: by 10.227.55.20 with SMTP id s20mr22205wbg.15.1315685400561; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rohan (196-210-153-55.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n12sm11291499wbp.7.2011.09.10.13.09.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:09:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:09:47 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/db gone: possible opportunity to switch profile Message-ID: <20110910220947.372bdd85@rohan> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5a663fc1d1905bd4af0d9effbb61e6b4 On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:41:39 -0300 Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi All, > > I have managed to delete /var/db. I know this was a very stupid thing > to be done, but now it is done and /var/db is gone for good. > > Well, that is a good opportunity to have everything built again, time > to try new CFLAGS, and so on. > > But there is a circular dependency that I do not know how to get rid > of: "glibc" and "gcc" depend on each other. They are both here, but > portage does not know that. > > How am I supposed to go on? > > By the way, I have a Pentium Core 2 Quad and I am using a "x86" > profile. How would I switch to a "amd64" ? As far as I know, my > processor is capable of this. As Michael replied elsewhere, this is hard. It may even be almost impossible and it's definitely not trivial. You intend to rebuild everything anyway, I would recommend you install over the old system and retain /etc/portage and the world file. Then emerge -e world. This will take you about 30 minutes longer than rebuilding world if you hadn't taken out /var/db - one of the few cases where a re-install really is the correct thing to do. Good luck. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com