On Freitag 25 September 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > After my last -uvDN world and subsequent revdep-rebuild and emerge > --depclean I found the main Makefile under /usr/src/linux was missing. > I managed to extract it from the sources and copy it over only to find > that, naturally, many other files were missing too. I gave up after > the third extraction/copy pass. Which leads to the following: > > 1) What is the approved method of re-populating that all-important > directory, just untar the sources back in or ? > > 2)How can I prevent this from happening again? The gentoo docs just > say, after the dust settles, to do a revdep followed by depclean. Is > that what did the deed? This was my first world upgrade and I sure > don't want to go through this again, if I can prevent it. > > Maxim >
1) just extract the stuff in /usr/src 2) it never happened to me so I don't know.
