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* [gentoo-user] deleted /var/db/*
@ 2012-11-09 23:09 Grant
  2012-11-09 23:18 ` Michael Hampicke
  2012-11-09 23:23 ` Neil Bothwick
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Grant @ 2012-11-09 23:09 UTC (permalink / raw
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I idiotically and accidentally deleted /var/db/*.  What can I do to bring
things back in line?

- Grant

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* Re: [gentoo-user] deleted /var/db/*
  2012-11-09 23:09 [gentoo-user] deleted /var/db/* Grant
@ 2012-11-09 23:18 ` Michael Hampicke
  2012-11-09 23:23 ` Neil Bothwick
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Michael Hampicke @ 2012-11-09 23:18 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Am 10.11.2012 00:09, schrieb Grant:
> I idiotically and accidentally deleted /var/db/*.  What can I do to bring
> things back in line?
> 
> - Grant
> 

You could start by re-emerging everything that is in
/var/lib/portage/world
That should pull in almost all deps


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* Re: [gentoo-user] deleted /var/db/*
  2012-11-09 23:09 [gentoo-user] deleted /var/db/* Grant
  2012-11-09 23:18 ` Michael Hampicke
@ 2012-11-09 23:23 ` Neil Bothwick
  2012-11-10  3:51   ` Grant
  2012-11-11  5:25   ` Grant
  1 sibling, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Neil Bothwick @ 2012-11-09 23:23 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 15:09:50 -0800, Grant wrote:

> I idiotically and accidentally deleted /var/db/*.  What can I do to
> bring things back in line?

emerge -e @world

should recreate it, although it is far from instant :(

...unless you have buildpkg in FEATURES, in which case you could use

emerge -ek @world


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Things are more like they are today than they ever have been before.

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* Re: [gentoo-user] deleted /var/db/*
  2012-11-09 23:23 ` Neil Bothwick
@ 2012-11-10  3:51   ` Grant
  2012-11-10  9:45     ` Neil Bothwick
  2012-11-11  5:25   ` Grant
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Grant @ 2012-11-10  3:51 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Gentoo mailing list

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> > I idiotically and accidentally deleted /var/db/*.  What can I do to
> > bring things back in line?
>
> emerge -e @world
>
> should recreate it, although it is far from instant :(
>
> ...unless you have buildpkg in FEATURES, in which case you could use
>
> emerge -ek @world

Thanks, I do have buildpkg.  Shouldn't emerge world and emerge -e world do
the same thing at this point?

- Grant

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* Re: [gentoo-user] deleted /var/db/*
  2012-11-10  3:51   ` Grant
@ 2012-11-10  9:45     ` Neil Bothwick
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Neil Bothwick @ 2012-11-10  9:45 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 19:51:16 -0800, Grant wrote:

> > emerge -ek @world  
> 
> Thanks, I do have buildpkg.  Shouldn't emerge world and emerge -e world
> do the same thing at this point?

Yes, but it never hurts to be explicit.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Hm..what's this red button fo|'»\x7f.'NO CARRIER

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* Re: [gentoo-user] deleted /var/db/*
  2012-11-09 23:23 ` Neil Bothwick
  2012-11-10  3:51   ` Grant
@ 2012-11-11  5:25   ` Grant
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Grant @ 2012-11-11  5:25 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Gentoo mailing list

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> > I idiotically and accidentally deleted /var/db/*.  What can I do to
> > bring things back in line?
>
> emerge -e @world
>
> should recreate it, although it is far from instant :(
>
> ...unless you have buildpkg in FEATURES, in which case you could use
>
> emerge -ek @world

That got it, thanks!

- Grant

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