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On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:52:55 +0300, Mike Myers <fluffymikey@×××××.com> |
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> In Gentoo, the system is updated while you are |
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> using it. |
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> This causes us users to modify whatever we're running to suit all these |
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> changes. |
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As far as I know, Gentoo releases a Reference Platform twice a year. So, |
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you can upgrade twice a year, once a year, once in two years - all as you |
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please. It will be similar to other distros, but better. |
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> I'd rather be able to specify that I'm using like |
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> the 2005 |
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> profile, and then when I try to do emerge -u world, I don't have to deal |
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> with my applications going from one major version to another major |
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> version |
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> all by themselves and then breaking with no easy way to revert back. |
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As discussed recently in another thread of this list, there are ways to |
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get back easily, backup of the portage tree being one of them. However, I |
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guess your problem can be solved easier - just do not do -u world. Since |
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its goal is exactly to produce what you do not want, why should you? How |
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many packages do you really want to be the latest? If there are a few, it |
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is easy to update them individually; if there are many, you may create a |
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virtual package in the overlay and update it. |
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I do not here much about upgrade really breaking a Gentoo installation. If |
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it did, then a fresh install also would be broken, an extremely rare case |
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with stable arch. Thus, if something does not work after upgrade, then |
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configuration files are out of order. Gentoo already has everything |
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necessary to examine them one by one and fix as necessary. |
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> Please tell me there's some solution to this? I haven't seen one |
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> mentioned |
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> anywhere yet. Even with Gentoo's occasional problems, I like it too |
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> much to |
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> use any other distro but I'd definitely like to see better version |
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> management than what its got, which is none. |
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As far as I understand, no, there is no solution. If you upgrade any |
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software, you have to upgrade the dependencies and configuration. All that |
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can be offered, and is offered by many distros, is the upgrade option that |
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should work if you installed the distro and did not change anything. Even |
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that does not work pretty often, please read the reviews. For a Gentoo |
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user the reason is evident - they do not have dispatch-conf. Some vendors |
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have already stopped bragging that an upgrade does not break anything, |
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example - Vista. |
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