On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 17:36 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 17-04-2009 10:46:27 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
> > i forgot to mention: on interix and hp-ux, busy files cannot be deleted,
> > so there is a bashrc hook, which has some mv magic to mv/cp files around
> > as that unmerging is possible... seems that hook is not called since the
> > EAPI doesn't match...
> 
> ok, that sucks big time.

ok... following this upgrade path from an old prefix should work:

emerge -avuDe world
emerge -avuD world

:)

this merges the last hybrid portage (the other one is masked by EAPI, at
least thats true for me...(??)), and after that uses that portage to
reinstall/update all packages. after that a normal update will give the
newest portage.

if the new portage is not masked by EAPI, that would be a problem. you'd
need to manually mask it while doing the -avuDe world.

the only problem is that the -avuDe world should never be stopped, since
otherwise a recalculation of dependencies will cause the non-hybrid
portage to be merged, which will (possibly) destroy (some) installed
packages - or at least prevents upgrades to run through smooth.

Should we provide some docs somewhere about this?

Cheers, Markus

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