On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26 Apr 2008, at 19:57, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > ... > > > > I don't buy that it's my issue created by a long time between updates. > > I could turn on any machine that's sitting in a junk heap or back room > > somewhere. It hasn't been powered up in a long time. I log in and want > > to figure out what's in front of me with respect to updates. I type > > emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's just wrong. > > > > As I say, I can get around the problem by simply copying absolutely > > everything somewhere else to protect it. It just seems to me that's > > not as slick as Gentoo really is. (And I think you know I LOVE this > > distribution and have no desire to run anything else ... > > > > To be completely fair, one has to compare this with the situation in which > one digs out of the storeroom an old PC on which a binary distro has been > installed. I have read Ubuntu users complaining that the easiest thing to do > is backup /home and appropriate /etc files and then reinstall from scratch. >
Ans it's actually what I ended up doing. When I considered that emerge was going to rebuild everything anyway it seemed that for an hour's work going through the quick install guide I might get lucky and only have to rebuild a few packages from the 2008 beta CD so I went that way. Fdisk'ed the drive, did a new install, set off emerge -DuN system and walked away. However if I had Alan's wrapper maybe I would have saved the hour's work. Don't know. Thanks! - Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
