[gentoo-user] unmerged linux headers

[gentoo-user] unmerged linux headers

[ciinder]

Hello! I got confused and unmerged linux-headers. Now I can't merge
anything. Is there any way to recover?

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerged linux headers

[Alan McKinnon]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerged linux headers

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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)
>
>


I have this if it will help:

root@fireball / # ls -al
/var/cache/portage/packages/sys-kernel/linux-headers-3.7.tbz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 665780 Jun 25 12:16
/var/cache/portage/packages/sys-kernel/linux-headers-3.7.tbz2
root@fireball / #

I'd be glad to email it off list, unless someone else beats me to it. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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