Apparently, though unproven, at 12:06 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Helmut Jarausch did opine thusly:
> 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? I've never found a place where eselect stores it's info. I suspect it directly reads all the various symlinks off disk when it starts up. If so, this will cause you some extra manual work. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
