From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C5B1381F3 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:14:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC805E0AE5; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:13:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f41.google.com (mail-yh0-f41.google.com [209.85.213.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0960E0AA9 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:13:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f41.google.com with SMTP id b12so327950yha.0 for ; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:13:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zfc86SOJJKmz7ArB16pBPvLBD9i/ElSquJHx3NEvRhc=; b=j5A3HS2q0DOstTrBG7IcI6f1EaLzsY0Cx9UsylAyyMLhZQrwCK2XmPDms3oe6tTaIl ABfrqR7kBmQS5Kv4LAjARhQaBDNpNMYkIKVPMcfg68NBw+bWwpLWmIx8Fdca6UdDe4ew m3e6Sv28uy9F+/QzG1A93xC6xxa/nQWh3/17OANYbKiyOwTK4bk92/aUKIK9OJAzMsfr ny43kam1g0vhZUChnaEia1EiCc9cmwrJz3bv8pqsnxNssS/Mpl3cKwNSr/3gLWya+AoK 5KZynEFzJjxfHJVzSSEXlkPHsx5HZ4VxQZstYwASP5GoEoZax1J8Cw6OZe7kd0Jt9R0h rnPg== X-Received: by 10.236.231.46 with SMTP id k44mr3972743yhq.37.1375449236743; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-122-60.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.122.60]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 66sm12078744yhe.20.2013.08.02.06.13.54 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51FBB091.2090804@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:13:53 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 SeaMonkey/2.19 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unmerged linux headers References: <49150.101.160.159.225.1375443967.squirrel@lavabit.com> <51FB9DE1.6040901@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51FB9DE1.6040901@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7318fc28-aee9-438f-b984-05077ca31f91 X-Archives-Hash: e2d6332bdb5ab368afba45cac33e55e5 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 :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!