On Wednesday, December 28, 2022 7:36:38 A.M. AEDT Walter Dnes wrote:
> I gave up on searching Google, and decided to nuke+repave. I'm sending
> from my backup ("successor") machine. The original machine now has basic
> install plus xorg-server plus icewm plus xterm. The titles on the xterm
> window bars are OK, i.e. they are *NOT* missing every second letter. I
> still have to install 74 apps from the backup copy I made of "world" and
> configure them.
>
> I fear that I may have to do the same with the backup machine. I run
> the same configs on both machines. I haven't updated the backup machine
> for 63 days, according to the warnings. Hopefully correcting make.conf
> right now will save me a second reinstall.
Did you try the not quite so hard "emerge --emptytree -a world" first?
It just recompiles your whole current system again, to make sure everything is
up to date
and has the current set of Use flags. Skips all the initial installation steps,
and keeps all
your /etc config customisations.
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