From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PILa9-0002x4-N9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:28:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF461E0653; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:27:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5941E0653 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:27:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so770930qyk.19 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:27:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=hNzKWucyvXyiEvpF/KtwF3MRSrhxTosLxu/l/oWm4TM=; b=ps7XYjL5QHMtUbY9AYJ5VNKOVpNtmTipbz66cLjE6tEFpxQn+5XPFbqpwgkuEsL1r/ /yX0ZKotN7Ig0LOMCwvlzQ/uPgR2QGOv4wrPyyNuKPXzxgJm9j+g3wyiSULu+Djad2cI 6a86wcrV9pok9jSjBLePTF5lSTIX7DNJIPBHY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=nRHO1bwHV9Lrsr6T7iMF3WOuv4dB0RI2xp+O9WzTSiwTbrEt6Y1oMyjIdeYMQ6K0WH H/jlzpv8UpbB6CeNBvatqS7UDUEuLBC/26fM8SRmdm9/BexP0npmA1uPtrwg8CbOAAxd HE5nKL8xs5fRQ/8OWs+hzGfyuPdxv06W7a1IY= 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 Received: by 10.229.100.76 with SMTP id x12mr2441501qcn.6.1289914069361; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:27:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.240.6 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:27:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1289901969.10494.1@numa-i> References: <1289900014.10494.0@numa-i> <201011161156.30158.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1289901969.10494.1@numa-i> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:27:49 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to rebuild gentoo on a somewhat different hardware From: Marius Vaitiekunas To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016364eea8ae5258204952b85be X-Archives-Salt: ee7af134-7ab6-40d7-976f-44edd7c38a67 X-Archives-Hash: f12e4868ba9c60d3863f3b1463ac3918 --0016364eea8ae5258204952b85be Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello, I think You could try: 1) change cflags in make.conf 2) bootstrap.sh 3) emerge -e system 4) emerge -e world In other words this is how to build a system from stage 1. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Helmut Jarausch < jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > On 11/16/10 10:56:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Backup your portage related data and re-install. > > > > Seriously - you know you are looking at doing emerge -e world and > > will > > need to > > fiddle stuff to make it complete successfully. > > > > If you just reinstall, put your old world file and /etc/portage/ back > > then let > > portage have at it, that is exactly what will happen. You'll have > > 30-45 > > minutes of setup work and a high level of confidence it will complete > > successfully. > > > > Trying to fix the existing installation is potentially many hours of > > poking > > around to see what changed, potentially several goes at running > > emerge > > -e > > world, hair pulling, and you will probably give up and just reinstall > > anyway. > > > > I'm assuming you are looking for the easiest, fastest route to > > success > > with > > the least pain, and that your days of poking into portage to see how > > things > > work for fun are long over. > > > > Thanks Alan, > > just one more question: where are information like the > current eselect(ions) stored? > > Helmut. > > -- mv --0016364eea8ae5258204952b85be Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello,

I think You could try:
1) change cflags in make.conf
2)= bootstrap.sh
3) emerge -e system
4) emerge -e world

In other= words this is how to build a system from stage 1.

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
On 11/16/10 10:56:29, Alan McKinnon wrote= :
>
> Backup your portage related data and re-install.
>
> Seriously - you know you are looking at doing emerge -e world and
> will
> need to
> fiddle stuff to make it complete successfully.
>
> If you just reinstall, put your old world file and /etc/portage/ back<= br> > then let
> portage have at it, that is exactly what will happen. You'll have<= br> > 30-45
> minutes of setup work and a high level of confidence it will complete<= br> > successfully.
>
> Trying to fix the existing installation is potentially many hours of > poking
> around to see what changed, potentially several goes at running
> emerge
> -e
> world, hair pulling, and you will probably give up and just reinstall<= br> > anyway.
>
> I'm assuming you are looking for the easiest, fastest route to
> success
> with
> the least pain, and that your days of poking into portage to see how > things
> work for fun are long over.
>

Thanks Alan,

just one more question: where are information like the
current eselect(ions) stored?

Helmut.




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