Adam Bower wrote:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:51:44PM +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
Hey! We're running this stuff commercially, and we wouldn't be doing that if we had had grief. We looked long and hard at gentoo before we made the jump, and we don't regret it yet. Stick with it, it's a learning curve, but some us us remember how hard it was walking away from the sirens of MS to the nirvana of Linux...
Gentoo is really, really, worth the effort...
I don't think so, how can a system that can self destruct or not install not be worth it?, there isn't really a learning curve as its a cross between FreeBSD and Debian and there is nothing there to really have to do. Both problems I have had appear to have been caused by problems with the build system.
Adam, I'm still shaking my head in disbelief at this. Have you asked or looked in the fora yet? Try this one:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=6928
If you have trouble getting there, this is the important part:
/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE
I am unconvinced, if it doesn't work after a selective repair tomorrow from the .tar.gz then its off my system for another 6 months at least. Mainly as I can't be bothered to do another reinstall where I can't use my machine for 12 hours (or however long it took to build last time) as I have other things I need to get done.
Sorry, not sold on the idea yet.
That's a shame. Oh well...
Cheers, Laurie.