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Hi, |
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yes, it's no fun to update oldish gentoo Systems - especially ones that |
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should only receive security updates. |
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> My bugbear at the moment, is often a package is broken for more than one |
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> reason in my situation, and I find myself having to manhandle the |
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> package lists generated by the above three, building each package |
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> one-by-one, until I manage to rebuild them all. |
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Been there, done that... :/ |
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> Concept: |
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> Tool will be written in separate modules to handle: |
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> - ELF soname change breakage |
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> - Python module updates |
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> - Perl module updates |
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> - other checks that can cause broken packages... |
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> Each check is run in order, generating a list of packages that should be |
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> rebuilt. |
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If you do a complete update, you will probably update the kernel (maybe |
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only for security reasons), too. In that case, |
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sys-kernel/module-rebuild, might be of interest here, too. It stores a |
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list of packages that compile kernel modules, and those will need |
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recompilation after a kernel update. |
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Best regards, |
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Craig |