On Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:57:03 BST Francisco Ares wrote: > Hello > > After a main HD failure, I'll have to reinstall Gentoo from almost zero - I > have a full and recent copy of the /etc directory and the file > /var/lib/portage/world in a secondary HD (along many personal backups). > > Installation basics done, now it is time for an emerge world. > > Although the emerge lists is as huge as expected, it doesn't even start, > portage says there are cyclic USE flags that I should avoid at the first > moment, but may restore afterwards. > > But it doesn't say which are those USE flags that block each other. > > Is there any way to find those better than brute force? > > By the way, I also have a copy of all binary packages (I always use the -b > flag while emerging any package) in that second disk. But that didn't help > so far, even trying to use the -K flag. I thought on un-tar'ing those > binary packages by hand, but portage will be unaware of this, not knowing > the packages are installed. > > Any hint will be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks > > Francisco
Try emerging @system first and see if this succeeds. I recall something similar on a recent fresh (re)installation, but the USE flags causing the circular block were reported in the emerge output, so I was able to unset and reset them at the time.
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