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 1GkuHt-00030D-5p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:21:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAH3J9I6015155; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:19:09 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ns0.exceedtech.net [70.151.169.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAH3HB3K024086 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:17:12 GMT Received: from [65.136.101.134] (0-1pool101-134.nas1.greenwood1.ms.us.da.qwest.net [65.136.101.134]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id kAH3JJqQ024612 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:19:21 -0600 Message-ID: <455D29B3.6080400@exceedtech.net> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:17:07 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061110 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 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] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin References: <200611161739.49711.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <455CFE31.8000202@exceedtech.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: eca840d2-df8f-4d97-9b1a-d97f9783986e X-Archives-Hash: bcf48d9683774b0a80c92a731da1b1d7 James Colby wrote: >> >> >> If it were me, I would still do a emerge -e world, just to be sure. >> >> Dale >> > Does emerge -e world add anything to the world file? Do I need to add > the --oneshot option to this to keep my world file clean > > Thanks, > James >>From what I understand, it takes the packages listed in the world file and then pretends there is nothing emerged and builds a list. This will emerge everything in world plus their dependacies. It should not change your world file at all. I have done this several times when something goes weird on my system or upgrading gcc. You have a good plan to keep your world file clean though. Seems we are both learning to do that. O_O Basically, this rebuilds everything on your system from the ground up. That is why it takes so long. It's akin to rebuilding the whole house when you have a small leak in your roof. Of course, you have a new house this way. ;-) Also keep in mind "emerge --resume" and "emerge --resume --skipfirst". The first is in case you have to stop to reboot or something. The second is in case something fails to emerge and you want to rebuild it later. Make a note of what packages fail and the error. You may need that info later. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list