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On 19/07/16 21:42, mr meowski wrote: > On 19/07/16 21:05, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> On 19/07/16 20:48, mr meowski wrote: >> How old is old? I'm running a moderately vintage gentoo install here >> now, but I've found all too often that if you get major >> package/dependency breakage, you are better off starting back from a >> stage3 and either copying your make.conf and/or world files over, and >> starting afresh. Gentoo really is a rolling distro, and not to keep >> up-to-date does cause its problems. >> >> Whilst not a 'guru' or expert at all, I do circulate with the gentoo >> devs (a strange bunch, I'll admit) .. but I think they too, whilst >> arguing that it -should- be possible, might also agree that starting >> afresh would be a better option. >> >> However, I'm game for a shot .. what is portage complaining about, and >> are you a systemd fan or ardently against? (marmite issue, I know!). >> pastebin/bpaste works :) > Ah ha! I was secretly hoping that you might reply - I was sure that I'd > seen you mentioning using Gentoo in production before. Bit nefarious of > me - I've posted RPi questions before effectively hoping that Gordon > would pipe up with a canonical answer :] > > The instance is my single oldest surviving Linux install from way back > in London and I'm (stupidly) slightly emotionally attached to the old > fellow as I leant many, many things from running it. Once upon a time it > was a physical machine and since then survived migration to two > different computers, conversion to a VM (twice), went from x86 to x64 > and from normal to testing. It's like an old knackered pet that I can't > bear to see put down. All the data I want is safe and as a VM it's > snapshotted of course so I can attempt any amount of otherwise dangerous > rescue attempts on it bit I'd really like to keep the "same" instance > alive, at least in spirit even if it's a veritable ship of Theseus at > this point. > > About a year (?) ago systemd choked an "emerge world" and I was never > able to untangle the mess, despite finding numerous threads from others > who evidently had fixed it. It is already a systemd* box but something > related to early systemd upgrades back when it was a bit unstable went > badly wrong. Let me fire it up a minute! > > Thanks Michael :] > > Cheers > > * as for systemd, I'm pragmatically ambivalent about it - I've learnt to > use it no problem as it's not going anywhere on Linux it seems. In this > case I'm perfectly happy to keep it systemd as trying to back it out to > OpenRC in a previous rescue attempt on a clone went very poorly indeed... The folks in #gentoo on IRC can be quite helpful too (troubleshot a initramfs/bios/boot confusion where the SATA was in IDE mode once) but you have to pick your timing. Let me know where things are at, and I'll see if I can think of anything. It could be a long road, but who knows .. MJE
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