Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

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

On 15/03/2015 16:45, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
> 
> 
>> On March 14, 2015 at 6:12 PM Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in
>> Gentoo:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Alan McKinnon
>> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
> 
> You have lost nothing, thanks to gentoolkit. Please run "enalyze rebuild use"
> and you will get package.use.test which will be the difference between default
> USE flags and yours. Then "mv package.use.test /etc/portage/package.use" will
> put you back in business.


Good find, hopefully I'll never need it again :-)

As luck would have it, I'd already finished reconstructing the file
manually the long way round - took about 3 hours.


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com