Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 02/08/2013 13:46, ciin...@lavabit.com wrote: >> Hello! I got confused and unmerged linux-headers. Now I can't merge >> anything. Is there any way to recover? >> >> >> > Find a backup of linux-headers somewhere[1] and untar it. > > Then you can emerge again, starting with linux-headers of course > > [1] there's many places you can have backups > > - something you made yourself > - off a recent install cd > - someone here can mail you a tarball > > but the best of all is to put "buildsyspkg" in make.conf, this makes > backups of all @system packages as they are merged and puts them in > /var/packages. > > @system packages are the only things that can really nuke your ability > to merge stuff (assuming you don't also nuke python or tar - that is > catastrophic) > >
I have this if it will help: root@fireball / # ls -al /var/cache/portage/packages/sys-kernel/linux-headers-3.7.tbz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 665780 Jun 25 12:16 /var/cache/portage/packages/sys-kernel/linux-headers-3.7.tbz2 root@fireball / # I'd be glad to email it off list, unless someone else beats me to it. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
