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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unmerged linux headers
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:54:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FB9DE1.6040901@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49150.101.160.159.225.1375443967.squirrel@lavabit.com>

On 02/08/2013 13:46, ciinder@lavabit.com wrote:
> Hello! I got confused and unmerged linux-headers. Now I can't merge
> anything. Is there any way to recover?
> 
> 
> 

Find a backup of linux-headers somewhere[1] and untar it.

Then you can emerge again, starting with linux-headers of course

[1] there's many places you can have backups

- something you made yourself
- off a recent install cd
- someone here can mail you a tarball

but the best of all is to put "buildsyspkg" in make.conf, this makes
backups of all @system packages as they are merged and puts them in
/var/packages.

@system packages are the only things that can really nuke your ability
to merge stuff (assuming you don't also nuke python or tar - that is
catastrophic)


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-02 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-02 11:46 [gentoo-user] unmerged linux headers ciinder
2013-08-02 11:54 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-08-02 13:13   ` Dale

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