On 09/26/2009 12:35 AM, 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 ?
No. You'll miss the patches that don't come in the tarball. To install
it again, emerge it again. For example, for gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r7:
emerge gentoo-sources:2.6.30-r7
emerge --depclean will never remove it again since you specified that
the "2.6.30-r7" slot is always to be kept.
2)How can I prevent this from happening again?
By doing what I described above :) It well never be removed unless you do:
emerge -C gentoo-sources:2.6.30-r7
