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On 09/20/11 15:09, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> > What do you guys think? |
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> I haven't ever tried it but, what would occur if that people with really |
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> updated systems simply unpack an updated stage3 tarball in their / and, |
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> later, try to update? |
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Usually things turn ugly - used to be that portage saw that there are |
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two glibcs installed and unmerges one (oh crummy, you only had one? |
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better reinstall now ...) and other really disturbing side-effects. |
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Just unpacking a stage3 over a live system is a nice game, but rarely |
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has sane results. You'd need to use a VDB-aware tool like qmerge to do |
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it cleanly, and then you still don't have a working system (new glibc on |
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old kernel, new udev on old kernel, lots of situations where things |
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don't work out) |