From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fx975-0006RB-Am for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:04:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k62L2QME005827; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 21:02:26 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k62KrrR6018933 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 20:53:54 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.106] (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873FD644FD for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 20:53:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <44A8325E.2030101@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:53:50 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060604) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup References: <200607021124.10952.gentoo@matthewlee.org> <44A81C4C.6070004@gentoo.org> <200607022239.22629.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> In-Reply-To: <200607022239.22629.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB86D3C3D6AC89D392BA1D1FE" X-Archives-Salt: 9021c6e9-373a-4453-a77d-faf8213b0d3c X-Archives-Hash: fcce014ad43f2feef1e9c886a64321f1 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB86D3C3D6AC89D392BA1D1FE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bo =C3=98rsted Andresen wrote: > On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>> tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but = no >>> joy. So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and >>> recompile the packages from scratch? >> You could try `emerge -ep xorg-x11`. >=20 > I guess what I would do in your situation would be to just nuke everyth= ing in=20 > the x11 categories: >=20 > # grep x11 /var/lib/portage/world > # cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -Cva x11*/* >=20 > The first gets a list of the x11 packages that you had in your world fi= le. The=20 > second removes all of it. Then I would emerge modular X.org again and m= ake=20 > sure not to overwrite it by emerging monolithic X.org. That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg stuff.= You can grab a list of all modular X packages at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt and run this: emerge -1 $(