From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40C8A158090 for ; Wed, 11 May 2022 12:26:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18D2EE08ED; Wed, 11 May 2022 12:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de (th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de [141.2.246.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A8ACE088F for ; Wed, 11 May 2022 12:26:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.16.11] (ip-062-143-141-015.um16.pools.vodafone-ip.de [62.143.141.15]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D131DBFA23 for ; Wed, 11 May 2022 14:26:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <9e0db2a3-cbaa-d9d3-6022-6c7af5953bd9@csc.uni-frankfurt.de> Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 14:26:19 +0200 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.7.0 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Content-Language: en-US To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: From: David Palao In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: eddf18b0-9240-49d8-ae79-cfe900b266b0 X-Archives-Hash: 008ab7d3cf1a7775d7631f40ad1f0283 Hi, What I would suggest is to try yo emerge @world first with a reduced list of USE flags, maybe the default, and after success you could introduce back the wanted USE flags and emerge @world once more. It could be a bit too much compilation, but if you have already binary packages, it will not be so expensive the second round, IMHO. Best On 11/5/22 11:57, Francisco Ares wrote: > Hello > > After a main HD failure, I'll have to reinstall Gentoo from almost > zero - I have a full and recent copy of the /etc directory and the > file /var/lib/portage/world in a secondary HD (along many personal > backups). > > Installation basics done, now it is time for an emerge world. > > Although the emerge lists is as huge as expected, it doesn't even > start, portage says there are cyclic USE flags that I should avoid at > the first moment, but may restore afterwards. > > But it doesn't say which are those USE flags that block each other. > > Is there any way to find those better than brute force? > > By the way, I also have a copy of all binary packages (I always use > the -b flag while emerging any package) in that second disk. But that > didn't help so far, even trying to use the -K flag. I thought on > un-tar'ing those binary packages by hand, but portage will be unaware > of this, not knowing the packages are installed. > > Any hint will be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks > > Francisco