[gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 03/10/2015 12:02 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 16:15:02 Marko Weber | 8000 wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> tried 'regenworld' ?
>>
>> marko
> 
> (Please do not top post, especially when the thread you are contributing to is 
> already interleaved.)
> 
> If the OP tries regenworld he could well have to spend the rest of the day 
> removing many packages that he did not intend to have in his world file.  In 
> addition, if his emerge.log has been removed or rotated at any point in the 
> system's life, the list of packages would be incomplete.  With these two 
> points in mind he could use it judiciously.

I did use regenworld, which added back a metric ton of packages, about a hundred
of which needed updating.  I let the machine run overnight, building all those
packages, and everything succeeded :)

Andreas, qlop shows that portage-2.2.16 was installed on Feb 9 and replaced by
2.2.15 on Feb 11 and then 2.2.17 on Feb 12.  Judging by the large number of
packages that needed updating yesterday, I'd say the problem probably did start
back in February but I didn't notice it until now.

Thanks guys.