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.
