On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid:
I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo
installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and
a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize them
for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad
genkernel does not use USE flags, so, that's not related, probably.
Someone will tell if I'm wrong.
understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all the
use flags, changed them to:
USE="-*"
Heh, once I tried that... Its better leave it empty than putting this.
You CAN put "-*", but then you would have to create a fairly large
packages.use in order to get a working system. That includes every
package listed in "emerge -pv world" with an entry.
Remove that option, start with minimal USE flags and reemerge world.
You're lucky you didn't try emerge -e system after that.
and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I have
broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it
build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) and
im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these
systems to get things working right again?
You're lucky that you still have a working system after all. You even
get a working portage, so, nothing to worry about. Fix your flags and
reemerge world.
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Daniel da Veiga
Computer Operator - RS - Brazil
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