On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2008, Daniel da Veiga wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Stroller >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On 31 Jul 2008, at 19:50, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: >> >> ... >> >> Note the "emerge -e world" is not what we need here as it will leave >> >> broken system packages (the system won't boot on the new processor). >> >> The '-e' option looks for the USE flags only. >> > >> > From `man emerge` >> > >> > --emptytree (-e) >> > Reinstalls all world packages and their dependencies ... >> >> Nicolas, Stroller (and the man page) is right... >> >> As "system" is part of "world", an "emerge -e world" would recompile >> every single package, along with all dependencies, a full system >> recompile, if you, for instance, change your CFLAGs to a generic one >> before it, at the end your system would be prepared to be used with a >> different processor. > > not anymore. system was taken out of world. > > http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=121607297615623&w=2 >
I see, so you need a "emerge -e system" in order to "emerge -e world" properly and make sure changes affect all packages. One more thing to keep note next time I transfer my system... -- Daniel da Veiga
