Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>> tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but no >>> joy. So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and >>> recompile the packages from scratch? >> You could try `emerge -ep xorg-x11`. > > I guess what I would do in your situation would be to just nuke everything in > the x11 categories: > > # grep x11 /var/lib/portage/world > # cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -Cva x11*/* > > The first gets a list of the x11 packages that you had in your world file. > The > second removes all of it. Then I would emerge modular X.org again and make > sure not to overwrite it by emerging monolithic X.org.
That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg stuff. You can grab a list of all modular X packages at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt and run this: emerge -1 $(<modular-x-packages.txt) Thanks, Donnie
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