On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:41:39 -0300 Francisco Ares <fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > > I have managed to delete /var/db. I know this was a very stupid thing > to be done, but now it is done and /var/db is gone for good. > > Well, that is a good opportunity to have everything built again, time > to try new CFLAGS, and so on. > > But there is a circular dependency that I do not know how to get rid > of: "glibc" and "gcc" depend on each other. They are both here, but > portage does not know that. > > How am I supposed to go on? > > By the way, I have a Pentium Core 2 Quad and I am using a "x86" > profile. How would I switch to a "amd64" ? As far as I know, my > processor is capable of this. As Michael replied elsewhere, this is hard. It may even be almost impossible and it's definitely not trivial. You intend to rebuild everything anyway, I would recommend you install over the old system and retain /etc/portage and the world file. Then emerge -e world. This will take you about 30 minutes longer than rebuilding world if you hadn't taken out /var/db - one of the few cases where a re-install really is the correct thing to do. Good luck. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
