Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 15/03/2015 01:52, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 
>> I delete package.use and have no backup
>>
>> Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the
>> long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking
>> USE, then see all the flags that portage thinks changed.
>>
>> I wonder if there might be an easier way that I don't know of.
> 
> I can't think of an approach any better than what you're doing. But
> console yourself with the thought that you will only ever have to do this
> once, because you'll always backup /etc/portage from now on.


That's what I thought.... oh well...


> BTW having backups is no protection against ID-ten-T errors. I no longer
> use BackupPC so decided to delete my backuppc subvolume last week, and
> used tab completion, not noticing that it completed on backup until an
> ohnosecond before hittng enter.
> 
> I wondered why the backuppc volume was still listed, then I wondered why
> it was listed first, then I cried.

ooooooooh, nasty. We've all done things like that.

My favourite is the time I was trying to run fsck/repair an ext3 volume
and was getting strange errors, which I didn't take time to understand.
Being tired and lazy, I confused --force with RTFM.

Then I noticed it was actually a reiser volume.

One customer machine. Ruined.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com