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From: Mark <whitetr6@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] problem after emerge --update world
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:57:58
Message-Id: 1f81f7e005072408561cee832d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] problem after emerge --update world by Steffen Jobbagy-Felso
1 Understood - I'll take that approach next time. Any idea how I can get
2 back to normal now though? Thanks
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4 On 7/24/05, Steffen Jobbagy-Felso <steffen@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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8 > This may sound harsh, but don't use automerge. Portage/etc-update cannot
9 > possibly know about every config change you (or the ebuilds) can make. I assume
10 > etc-update (rightly) doesn't even attempt this and merges based on string
11 > analysis without thought as to what the settings actually mean, leading to breakage.
12 >
13 > If you never touched a file it's probably save to just overwrite the existing
14 > one. You always have the backup in case it wasn't save ;)
15 > That's how I do it anyways.
16 >
17 > On a different if related topic, I'd recommend running
18 > emerge -DuapvN world
19 > instead of emerge --update world (aka emerge -u world)
20 > That stands for:
21 > - --deep (update dependencies as well and not just packages you explicitly
22 > installed)
23 > - --update
24 > - --ask
25 > - --verbose (shows USE flags and download size)
26 > - --newuse (recompiles packages whose USE flags changed, shown by a * next to the
27 > flag in the output of av)
28 >
29 > Steffen
30 >
31 > Mark wrote:
32 > > I'm having a problem after I did emerge --update world last night.
33 > > After it finished, it said 75 files in /etc needed updating. OK, I've
34 > > seen this before and have made mistakes with it. So this time, I
35 > > copied all of /etc to /home/mark/etc.old, and then ran etc-update. I
36 > > then let it auto merge everything and rebooted.
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[gentoo-amd64] Re: problem after emerge --update world Francesco Talamona <ti.liame@×××××.it>