On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:15:41 pm Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > First avoid top posting > > > OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system, > > and it is failing due to several errors. Other than reformatting the > > hard drive, how do I reinstall everything? > > boot livecd, mount the disc as described in the official manuals [1], > extract a propriate tarball, remove all /etc/portage/packages*, review > make.conf, emerge -e system, will bring back your system. > > > Where do I change the accept keywords variable? It isn't in my > > make.conf, and if I put an accept keywords line in there, it simply adds > > to the list of keywords, rather than replacing the amd64 with ~amd64 > > Search for it in /etc.
I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept keywords variable. > > > Jeff > > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=install
