{"id":155,"date":"2005-10-22T16:03:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T13:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2005\/10\/22\/gentoo-broken-world-file\/"},"modified":"2005-10-22T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T13:03:33","slug":"gentoo-broken-world-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2005\/10\/22\/gentoo-broken-world-file\/","title":{"rendered":"gentoo &#8220;broken&#8221; world file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I did an &#8220;eix xpad&#8221; and I saw that there were newer versions than I had installed&#8230;That was weird because I daily do my &#8220;emerge -uDav world&#8221;. That was not the first time though such a thing had happened. So I opened my &#8220;\/var\/lib\/portage\/world&#8221; file and started checking for some of my packages that should be in there, like gimp, k3b, etc. There were just not there.<br \/>\nWhat I did was copy the world file to the root dir and then &#8220;regenworld&#8221;. 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