Hello, I think You could try: 1) change cflags in make.conf 2) bootstrap.sh 3) emerge -e system 4) emerge -e world
In other words this is how to build a system from stage 1. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Helmut Jarausch < jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > On 11/16/10 10:56:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Backup your portage related data and re-install. > > > > Seriously - you know you are looking at doing emerge -e world and > > will > > need to > > fiddle stuff to make it complete successfully. > > > > If you just reinstall, put your old world file and /etc/portage/ back > > then let > > portage have at it, that is exactly what will happen. You'll have > > 30-45 > > minutes of setup work and a high level of confidence it will complete > > successfully. > > > > Trying to fix the existing installation is potentially many hours of > > poking > > around to see what changed, potentially several goes at running > > emerge > > -e > > world, hair pulling, and you will probably give up and just reinstall > > anyway. > > > > I'm assuming you are looking for the easiest, fastest route to > > success > > with > > the least pain, and that your days of poking into portage to see how > > things > > work for fun are long over. > > > > Thanks Alan, > > just one more question: where are information like the > current eselect(ions) stored? > > Helmut. > > -- mv
