Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 21 January 2007 09:55, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about '[gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of': > >> Every once in a blue moon I screw up something. I don't know why I am >> telling you this. I come here mostly for help. LOL So you already now >> that. I have buildpkg set in make.conf. It does tend to consume some >> space though. What is say the top ten or twelve programs that would be >> good to have in case of a rescue? I would assume portage, gcc and >> python would be pretty important. I plan to delete the rest for space. >> > > Keep a glibc and binutils around as well. Have busybox *installed*, > statically linked. pam, acl and your favorite non-X11 editor would be my > next additions to the package list. Then, to round out the 10-12 add all > the packages that provide your file system (e2fstools, reiserfstools, > etc.) and block device (LVM, EVMS, etc.) tools. >
I have busybox installed. I wonder where that came from. :/ This is what it says the flags are: > [ebuild R ] sys-apps/busybox-1.2.2.1 USE="-debug -make-symlinks > -netboot -savedconfig -static" 1,380 kB Those correct? I would hate to bork something and then find out busybox is installed wrong. It would be my luck though. > >> Also, what commands would a person have to use to make use of those >> buildpkg's? So far, I have not needed one. < says prayer > That >> assumes portage is what is screwed up to begin with. >> > > All you need is tar. You simply extract the compressed tarball over your > root file system and the package is installed, but not entered into the > vdb (so, it wouldn't be a bad idea to re-emerge it once you get portage > back up). > > If you glibc gets screwed up, your standard tar will probably just die on > you, which is why I mentioned a statically linked busybox as something to > install. Busybox can function as both a shell (if bash starts misbehaving > cause readline, glibc, or something else it links to is broken) and tar, > as well as a host of other programs. > > Thanks Dale :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
