Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-12 Thread Doug Hunley
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: How would you do that? I'm currently using ~amd64 and can't yet use sets for some reason. Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become stable it seems, but I'm using it just fine for three

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Doug Hunley writes: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: How would you do that? I'm currently using ~amd64 and can't yet use sets for some reason. Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become stable it seems, but I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-11 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK, Gentoo does not have a script or an option to back up the world file and other associated files. This is why I keep an empty world file and use /etc/portage/sets/ exclusively. I'm backing up /etc/portage anyway

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Claudio Roberto França Pereira writes: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: This is why I keep an empty world file and use /etc/portage/sets/ exclusively. I'm backing up /etc/portage anyway (package.use and friends), so it just makes sense to have

Portage 2.2 - when will it go stable?? WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-07-11 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become stable it seems, Can anyone comment on *why* it is taking so long? It is beginning to border on ridiculous - if it is ready (which I seem to recall lots

Re: Portage 2.2 - when will it go stable?? WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 11 July 2012 14:23, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-07-11 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become stable it seems, Can anyone comment on *why* it is taking so long? It is beginning to

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:04:35 -0400 Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:34:12 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want installed. AFAIK,

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:34:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want installed. That's how I'd do it, except by using emerge -n instead of editing the file by hand. emerge -cp emerge -n any

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want installed. Good luck, Mark Answering from computer now. A couple of ideas: 1) Copy one of my world files

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Doug Hunley
AFAIK, Gentoo does not have a script or an option to back up the world file and other associated files. This is why I keep an empty world file and use /etc/portage/sets/ exclusively. I'm backing up /etc/portage anyway (package.use and friends), so it just makes sense to have 'world' in there ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 07/06/2012 09:00 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 08:41 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I yesterday got a ssd to replace my kaput hdd which had no data but os. Apparently something went wrong while migration, and now everything disappeared in portage's world list.

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-05 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 08:41 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I yesterday got a ssd to replace my kaput hdd which had no data but os. Apparently something went wrong while migration, and now everything disappeared in portage's world list. So whenever I run depclean it tries to remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want installed. Good luck, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-05 Thread Frank Peters
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:34:12 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want installed. AFAIK, Gentoo does not have a script or an option to back up the world file and other