Re: [gentoo-user] Should we NEVER do an ``emerge -u world''?

[sdoma]

Again top-posting :)
One thing for you before I leave:
I know that it is possible to avoid installation of unwanted upgrades
using portage, but I don't like to have to say my comp what NOT TO DO. I
await from my comp to do what I say it TO DO because I'm (mostly)
knowing what I'm doing.

F.

PS: Imagine you send your wife buying some food. What is more
applicable? Telling her what to buy or telling her what not to buy?


On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 20:04 +0200, sdoma wrote:
> I've tried to get documentoin for Tcl/tk, put 'doc' into the package.use
> for these files and re-emerged tcl and tk (BTW: no docs for these
> packages came up). emerge told me, that there is a new version of
> portage available and that it is HIGHLY recommended to upgrade portage.
> I did so and 87 packages where upgraded, amongst this glibc to 2.4, what
> hurts me now because I planned to install Oracle, which requires
> glibc2.3.
> Seems x86 or ~x86 doesn't make much a difference. I reinstalled the
> system not so long ago with x86 fo this reason.
>
> I remember the same problems a couple of times in the past. /etc/fstab
> was "upgraded" to the initial one (the one with /dev/BOOT and dev/ROOT
> inside resulting in a not booting system), networking stopped working
> letting me on my own, stopping hotplug (and historical
> coldplug-nonsense) functionality, udev.rules where replaced by some
> initial one for a syntax change in udev (using ``sed'' would be a better
> choice here) ...
>
> Just a minor thing, before I realized the USB problem, I was working on
> 'localhost:unknown-domain' after the "upgrade".
>
> I'm really sick of solving the same problems again and again. Seems
> Gentoo is a system for students not needing their comps to be working.
>
> For me it looks at this point like: "Every other distribution is a
> better choice for somebody who needs his machine for work". I don't like
> to say that, but this is my expirience. :((((((((((((((
>
> Regards
> Frank
>
>
> PS: X-cuse me top-posting. This is a really exportant issue, and I'm
> disturbing it. ;-(
>
> PS 2: Co work with LFS! They have the same target (get people to know
> the functionality of Linux). I'll install some working distro which is
> conform with other POSIX compliant systems ... with a tear in my
> eye. :((((((((((((
>
>
> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 18:31 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:48:20 +0200, sdoma wrote:
> >
> > > I'm running 2.6.17.6.
> > > It worked before the upgrade
> >
> > Which upgrade? emerge -u world could update one package or a hundred.
> > Which packages were upgraded?
> >
> > Please don't top-post.
> >
> >
>

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