RE: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-06-20 Thread Laurence Perkins
As long as your instruction sets are compatible it goes pretty quickly. I've got an install that's on its third set of hardware now... LMP -Original Message- From: Francisco Ares Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2022 9:24 AM To: gentoo-user Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Good day!

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Francisco Ares
Good day! First of all, sorry for the late reply. I had to attend to a course a bit far away from home and it was pretty intense. Now, back home, I'll try the suggestions, thanks! Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-05-11 Thread Wols Lists
On 11/05/2022 19:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2022 16:45:31 +, Laurence Perkins wrote: Alternatively, fully update the system before putting in your world file, and then instead of copying in the world file all at once just run a loop to emerge the lines in it one at a time. No

RE: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-05-11 Thread Laurence Perkins
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Bothwick > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 11:35 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall > > On Wed, 11 May 2022 16:45:31 +, Laurence Perkins wrote: > > > Alternatively, fully updat

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 May 2022 16:45:31 +, Laurence Perkins wrote: > Alternatively, fully update the system before putting in your world > file, and then instead of copying in the world file all at once just > run a loop to emerge the lines in it one at a time. Now you mention it, that's what I did last

RE: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-05-11 Thread Laurence Perkins
putting in your world file, and then instead of copying in the world file all at once just run a loop to emerge the lines in it one at a time. LMP -Original Message- From: David Palao Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 5:26 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Rei

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-05-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:57:03 BST Francisco Ares wrote: > Although the emerge lists is as huge as expected, it doesn't even start, > portage says there are cyclic USE flags that I should avoid at the first > moment, but may restore afterwards. > > But it doesn't say which are those USE flags

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-05-11 Thread David Palao
Hi, What I would suggest is to try yo emerge @world first with a reduced list of USE flags, maybe the default, and after success you could introduce back the wanted USE flags and emerge @world once more. It could be a bit too much compilation, but if you have already binary packages, it will

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-05-11 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:57:03 BST Francisco Ares wrote: > Hello > > After a main HD failure, I'll have to reinstall Gentoo from almost zero - I > have a full and recent copy of the /etc directory and the file > /var/lib/portage/world in a secondary HD (along many personal backups). > > Insta

[gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-05-11 Thread Francisco Ares
Hello After a main HD failure, I'll have to reinstall Gentoo from almost zero - I have a full and recent copy of the /etc directory and the file /var/lib/portage/world in a secondary HD (along many personal backups). Installation basics done, now it is time for an emerge world. Although the emer

[gentoo-user] Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-10 Thread Samuraiii
Hello, because I broke me PC and I need to reinstall it I'm going ask what should I preserve to make install faster: 1. I presume that /home can be left intact. 2. I plan to backup /etc and after reinstall I'm going to "diff" /etc.old with /etc to see what changed and to keep my previous changes i

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:00:49PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2011 16:03:21 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > As a matter of interest, do you know how to configure a framebuffer > > console to fill up a wide screen (say, to a width of 170 characters) > > as contrasted with the 128

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mark. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 08:29:47AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Run something like > emerge --noreplace =gentoo-sources-2.6.38-r1 That's just the job. Thanks. > HTH, > Mark -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 16:03:21 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Mick. > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to > > > > remove the older 2.6 python package

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Call me a clinging cry-baby if you like, but until I'm confident about my > new kernel, I'd like to hang on to the old one, including its sources. > It'd also be nice to run --depclean in the meantime.  Do I have to do > recursive copying o

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to > > > remove the older 2.6 python package. > > I had to (or, at least, did) run emerge -uND @world. Funni

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Mick. > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:44:05PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Hi, Mick. > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > On Saturday 23 April 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:18:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: > Maybe I should disable doc, but it seems "wrong" to me, to miss out on > all this potentially useful information (which admittedly I never use). The potentially useful information is installed anyway. USE=doc enables the potentially useless in

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:44:05PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Mick. > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30P

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Stroller
On 25/4/2011, at 11:07am, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> ... >> The doc USE flag is disabled by default on my make.profile >> (amd64/10.0/desktop), so although it won't need to be set as -doc in >> /etc/make.conf, it will need to be set as doc in the packages that need >> it in /etc/portage/package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Neil. A happy Easter to everybody who celebrates it, and a very good day to everybody else! On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:07:15AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:49:35 +0100, Mick wrote: > > The doc USE flag is disabled by default on my make.profile > > (amd64/10.0/desktop)

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:49:35 +0100, Mick wrote: > > What I'm saying is that you should have -doc in /etc/make.conf and > > enable it on a per-package basis. The doc flag builds extra > > documentation that general users don't need, man/info/html pages are > > included by default (at least, that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 08:30:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:16:39 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > It's rarely desirable to enable doc globally. It is best to enable > > > only for those packages where you need extended documentation. > > > > @Alan Mackenzie: > > > > What Neil is sayin

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:16:39 +0100, Mick wrote: > > It's rarely desirable to enable doc globally. It is best to enable > > only for those packages where you need extended documentation. > > @Alan Mackenzie: > > What Neil is saying can be achieved by setting package specific USE > flags in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 April 2011 21:30:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:17:23 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > > >Doing this today I've had a couple of packages that needed to be > > >emerged with USE=-doc when they failed. > > > > Those would be jinja and sphinx. They are notorious for their

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:17:23 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > >Doing this today I've had a couple of packages that needed to be > >emerged with USE=-doc when they failed. > > Those would be jinja and sphinx. They are notorious for their circular > dependency, which requires USE='-doc' to bypass.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:40:02 +0200, Stroller wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]: >On 24/4/2011, at 4:44pm, Mick wrote: >> ... >> At this stage you should only run: >> >> python-updater -v >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Stroller
On 24/4/2011, at 4:44pm, Mick wrote: > ... > At this stage you should only run: > > python-updater -v > > Nothing else. Doing this today I've had a couple of packages that needed to be emerged with USE=-doc when they failed. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:44:05 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Mick. > > > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Mick wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Mick. > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > What do you get when you run: > > > > > > >

[gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > What do you get when you run: > > > # eselect python list > > Available Python interpreters: > > [1] pyt

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-09 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Abraham, [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: emerge --emptytree vim thanks for that. It completed now successfully and vim is installed fine :) Best regards, Matthias -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-09 Thread Fernando Antunes
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Matthias Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried today to build vim but it fails. > Now I want to make sure all packages needed by vim are installed > correctly. To do this I decided to reinstall all packages need be vim. > > I checked the man page of e

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-09 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Justin, Justin schrieb: Try doing what the ebuild is telling you. Re-emerge perl and libperl with the same USE FLAGS that is what I tried to say, but maybe two commands make it more clear: equery u libperl [ Found these USE variables for sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r1 ] U I + + berkdb : Ad

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-08 Thread Justin
* If the above messages seem to be talking about perl * and undefined references, please try re-emerging both * perl and libperl with the same USE flags. For more * information, see: Try doing what the ebuild is telling you. Re-emerge perl and libperl with the same USE FLAGS * htt

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-08 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Justin, Justin schrieb: Provide ous some more information about how vim fails. Runtime, build or what failure you get. ok here you are: :) /usr/lib/python2.4/config/libpython2.4.a(posixmodule.o): In function `posix_tmpnam': (.text+0x94e): warning: the use of `tmpnam_r' is dangerous, bette

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-08 Thread Justin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: emerge --emptytree vim I think this will be too much!! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-08 Thread tecnic5
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/05/2008 10:57 Por favor, responda a gentoo-user Para: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org cc: Asunto: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim Hi, I tried today to build vim but it fails. Now I want to make sure all packages neede

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-08 Thread Justin
Matthias Fechner schrieb: Hi, I tried today to build vim but it fails. Now I want to make sure all packages needed by vim are installed correctly. To do this I decided to reinstall all packages need be vim. I checked the man page of emerge but could not found an option for this. Is there a pos

[gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

2008-05-08 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I tried today to build vim but it fails. Now I want to make sure all packages needed by vim are installed correctly. To do this I decided to reinstall all packages need be vim. I checked the man page of emerge but could not found an option for this. Is there a possibility to reinstall all p

[gentoo-user] reinstall troubles

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Smith
im having to do a reinstall on my laptop and im using the new 2005.0 version, however when it comes to the chroot part it says i dont have the command env-update, this is the first time i have ran into this and i have followed the handbook exactly. it is something im doing wrong or is just somethi