My recent problems have been strange...

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My recent problems have been strange...
\ Chris Walters (4 Mar 2008)

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Subject:	My recent problems have been strange...
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Chris Walters
Date:	4 Mar 2008

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My recent problems upgrading packages to the testing versions have been more
than a little odd. It would always end the same way - there would be files
missing that had been there before I merged a package, and the loss of these
files would prevent the caching of service dependencies. Thus, I could not use
emerge and several other tools.

The strange part is that it happened four different times with four different
packages. Three examples are texinfo, gawk and coreutils. What makes this
problem more odd is that I could install those those packages, without trouble,
later - with no changes on my part. I did not sync, as I was already up to
date, and I did not change any options. Each time I was able to merge a
package that has caused me trouble, another package, would cause the same problem.

Oh, and by the way, yes I do keep an up to date backup of my entire system, and
will restore it, if necessary. This is especially true when re-installing
Gentoo, as I have found that, often the order of emerging things can make or
break a system (I would call a system broken when you can't run emerge, many
key files are missing, and the environment variables are such that you can't
run anything, and when rebooting does not work, causing you to have to turn off
the computer which corrupts the file system).

Regards,
Chris

PS: I finally got everything in order, and it is working fine.
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