Re: [gentoo-server] Broken world upgrades

[Kerin Millar]

> * Perhaps the best solution of all is to simply copy your environment to a
> "staging" box and perform updates there first (building binary packages
> with emerge --buildpkg). After a little testing, you can rapidly install
> your known-working packages on your production box (with emerge --usepkg).

Another point: sometimes you can even take that sort of approach on a
single box by using emerge -B (which builds a binary package without
installing it). The downside is that any dependencies which are mandatory
must be built _and_ installed for the package to be built with -B!
Depending on the situation you're in, it might be enough though.

Cheers,

--Kerin Francis Millar