On 11/24/10 17:03:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:48 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, > Kevin > O'Gorman did opine thusly: > > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 19 November 2010, > Allan > > > > > > Gottlieb did opine thusly: > > > > > It seems, however, that you're still going down the path > of > emerge > > > > > > > > > > -e @world. Why is that? If it's just to be confident that > everything > > > > > is back to the way it should be then I understand that. I've > done it > > > > > myself many times in the last 12 years. > > > > > > > > Yes that is the reason. > > > > > > Sounds like the big guns approach, can be valid at times. > > > > > > I'm usually the first one to chip in about emerge -e world being > stupid > > > when > > > someone reads the gcc upgrade guide, but sometimes you have a box > that > > > just will not fix itself despite hours of troubleshooting. In a > case > > > like this a full remerge often fixes mysterious but actual real > > > problems. > > > > I've had pretty much the same thing happen. In my case, 'eix' > showed that > > I had 0.9.8p and 1.0.0 installed > > in two different slots. However the 3 files that belong to 0.9.8 > were > > missing. Fortunately, I run with --buildpkg > > so I had a binary package lying around. Emerging it with -gK > restored the > > files, and everything was okay. > > > > OTOH, a couple of years ago I did an emerge -e and regretted it. > It > kept > > stopping because something wasn't > > configured right, and I had to go through dispatch-conf on > everything up to > > that point before I could get it to > > proceed. Good luck with your "few days". Mine was more like 2 > weeks of > > stop-and-go. > > > Ah, the joys of source-based distros :-) > > If you break it, you get to keep all 47,392 pieces! > I keep promising to leave gentoo behind and find something less > thrilling. > Then I use by Ubuntu netbook for a few days and come right back. > > It's like a heroin junkie needing his fix... >
I have been doing emerge -e world just recently. The first few days I felt like a disc jockey, here a use flag in there out. But then the real problem was that Gentoo is changing quite fast. All packages which failed to rebuild couldn't be rebuilt on an up-to- date machine either, since meanwhile I have installed a newer version sys-devel/autoconf and friends and some packages cannot be rebuilt with a recent version of these tools. I just didn't notice it on my master machine since there was no need to rebuild these packages. But trying to do so now revealed the true cause of the error -> some bug reports. Helmut.
