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| From: | Kerin Millar <kerin@×××××××××××××××.net> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-server@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-server] Broken world upgrades | ||
| Date: | Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:51:01 | ||
| Message-Id: | 2594.10.0.0.99.1101916257.squirrel@10.0.0.99 | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-server] Broken world upgrades by Billy |
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| 1 | > Kerin Millar wrote: |
| 2 | >> * Perhaps the best solution of all is to simply copy your environment to |
| 3 | >> a |
| 4 | >> "staging" box and perform updates there first (building binary packages |
| 5 | >> with emerge --buildpkg). After a little testing, you can rapidly install |
| 6 | >> your known-working packages on your production box (with emerge |
| 7 | >> --usepkg). |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | > UML would be great for that.. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Yep, or even just a chroot would do the trick ;) (UML is surely safer |
| 12 | though). |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Regards, |
| 15 | |
| 16 | --Kerin Francis Millar |