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Am Sonntag, 22. März 2009 02:17:53 schrieb Mike Diehl: |
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> Ok now, I'm getting fed up with all of the breakage that I've seen in |
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> Gentoo in the last few months. |
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> I'm trying to upgrade MythTV. Emerge told me to upgrade my profile, which |
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> I did. |
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> Now I'm doing an emerge -u world. |
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> But before I could do that, I had to upgrade portage, with made sense. |
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> When I go to emerge -u portage, I'm told: |
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> sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-7.1) |
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> So I do: |
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> emerge -C mktemp |
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Depending on which package you unmerge before the blocker is resolved, this |
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can break your system. This is while paludis and newer versions of portage can |
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be told to resolve blockers automatically. |
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> Has Gentoo become such a moving target that it's no longer suitable for |
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> normal, every day, usage? |
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Not if you keep it up to date. Then, even a ~arch system is relatively |
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painless to use. |
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> I've got another machine that needs to be upgraded, but hasn't been |
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> upgraded in some time. So it's profile is obsolete and many of the core |
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> packages have been moved around so much that there is no upgrade path from |
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> where it is now, to where Gentoo is. |
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There always is. However, the longer the path, the more pitfalls may be on it. |
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> Is it time to start looking for a new distribution? It seems that as long |
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> as I keep rebuilding machines from a current live CD, all is well. |
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??? I don't understand. |
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> But if |
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> I try to upgrade anything else, I end up having to reformat. |
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That also doesn't make sense. |
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> I've been |
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> using Gentoo long enough to have actually met Daniel Robbins in person, but |
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> I'm considering moving to a different distribution. |
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dito. |
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> Remember, all I want to do is upgrade MythTV. |
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So, then just do it. People here will help you to resolve the issues. |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |