From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/db gone: possible opportunity to switch profile
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:56:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2589198.3MJH8sU13g@pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHH9eM439u_6RNZ2-OVNTZ+aAU5Ek_yg88vQaxCLJh1b-st1iQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Saturday, 10. September 2011 16:41:39 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.
*bummer*
> 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?
emerging the one or the other with --nodeps could solve this.
> 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.
Afaik it's not possible to "upgrade" a running 32bit system to a 64bit one.
> Thanks
> Francisco
Hth,
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-10 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-10 19:41 [gentoo-user] /var/db gone: possible opportunity to switch profile Francisco Ares
2011-09-10 19:56 ` Michael Schreckenbauer [this message]
2011-09-10 20:09 ` Francisco Ares
2011-09-10 20:29 ` Francisco Ares
2011-09-10 20:40 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-10 20:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-10 20:40 ` Francisco Ares
2011-09-10 22:37 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-10 23:37 ` Francisco Ares
2011-09-11 13:26 ` Peter Humphrey
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