On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, James Colby wrote:
I was trying to delete some files from my /sbin directory and with an unfortunate use of a wildcard accidentally deleted the entire contents on the /sbin directory. I have recovered the contents of the /sbin directory from a stage 3 tarball. I was thinking about doing an emerge world, just to make sure that everything is consistent. Do you all think that this is necessary?
Yes, I think an "emerge --deep --emptytree world" would be in order. If you had a recent backup of your system-- new enough that no new packages had been emerged since the backup was taken-- then restoring the backup would be the easiest option. In this case, though, it seems like a reasonable tradeoff to wait for all your packages to recompile in order to be more confident that your system won't blow up on you. Joe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
