From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E24F138CA3 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 23:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4B1BE0B71; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 23:52:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEDF7E0976 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 23:52:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 27DA826430 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 23:52:27 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 23:52:25 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use Message-ID: <20150314235225.36d76d1a@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5504B261.7@gmail.com> References: <5504B261.7@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1-75-g9971ef (GTK+ 2.24.27; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/ZZY32OwsEYwW99uTicedblg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 7d243e61-e975-4b7c-aea4-9e5ec8a55bff X-Archives-Hash: ebae96f07567373cb6f20df7cff34fa3 --Sig_/ZZY32OwsEYwW99uTicedblg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I delete package.use and have no backup >=20 > Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the > long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking > USE, then see all the flags that portage thinks changed. >=20 > I wonder if there might be an easier way that I don't know of. I can't think of an approach any better than what you're doing. But console yourself with the thought that you will only ever have to do this once, because you'll always backup /etc/portage from now on. BTW having backups is no protection against ID-ten-T errors. I no longer use BackupPC so decided to delete my backuppc subvolume last week, and used tab completion, not noticing that it completed on backup until an ohnosecond before hittng enter. I wondered why the backuppc volume was still listed, then I wondered why it was listed first, then I cried. --=20 Neil Bothwick "Thou shalt not battle over operating systems. I am wise and in My wisdom have created diverse and various operating systems." The Ten Usenet Commandments: One --Sig_/ZZY32OwsEYwW99uTicedblg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlUEybkACgkQum4al0N1GQNK6QCgwKvTT/KiTqTUFI1lqIpIBgA0 09sAoMt/MPEDd79kWHD2G4PaIaGQ9ti8 =LlgB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ZZY32OwsEYwW99uTicedblg--