On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo! > > As reported in other threads, my new PC had a broken RAM stick in it. > As a result, an unknown proportion of installed binaries are flaky. One > non-functioning binary is probably GCC. > > What I'd like to do is reinstall every binary, yet without erasing any > configuration info, whose creation was so arduous. > > Where does portage keep it's list of installed packages?
/var/db/pkg > What do I have > to do to persuade portage it has _no_ installed packages before doing > 'rm -rf *' in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin? --emtpytree > > Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation? tar up /etc.
