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Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 10:35:25AM -0500, Dale wrote |
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>> Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>>> Total: 377 packages (298 upgrades, 52 new, 2 in new slots, 25 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 1,408,922 KiB |
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>>> ...wish me luck. |
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>> Glad to help. I get a lot of help from this list so nice to give back a |
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>> little. ;-) |
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>> Happy compiling. Keep the thing cool. |
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> time emerge --changed-use --deep --update @world |
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> ...gave me... |
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> * IMPORTANT: 40 config files in '/etc' need updating. |
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> * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS |
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> * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files. |
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> * IMPORTANT: 4 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. |
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> * Use eselect news read to view new items. |
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> * After world updates, it is important to remove obsolete packages with |
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> * emerge --depclean. Refer to `man emerge` for more information. |
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> |
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> real 293m20.427s |
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> user 366m20.734s |
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> sys 71m22.050s |
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> I also noticed a whole slew of perl packages updating when I ran |
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> "emerge -pv", so I followed up with "perl-cleaner --reallyall", which |
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> went through a bunch of packages. Lesson learned, update the notebook |
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> more often. |
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That's one downside to Gentoo, it doesn't like being stale. As you just |
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experienced, not updating Gentoo creates a time consuming and often |
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confusing process to get back up to date. If I were to want to install |
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something that I couldn't keep up to date, update at least once a month, |
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I'd use some other distro for that machine. Going 3 months or more can |
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lead to enough problems but going a year or so is a big problem. |
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Depending on what all has changed, it can even be faster to reinstall |
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than update. |
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If I were advising a new person trying to Gentoo, I'd recommend going no |
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more than a month between updates. If that person can't upgrade at |
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least once every three months, I'd suggest another distro. At some |
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point, it just becomes to much trouble. |
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That's not a knock at the devs either. It's just the way Gentoo is |
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since it follows upstream so closely. In all honesty, way back, it was |
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even harder to upgrade a machine way out of date. The devs who code |
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emerge have made a lot, make that huge, progress in making emerge find |
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ways around blocks and such. Still, regular updates is easier in my |
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opinion than waiting to long. |
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I have to admit tho, if I had a laptop which comes with cooling issues |
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plus being slower than a desktop, I'd likely go to once a month updates |
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unless I could compile on my desktop then move the binaries over to the |
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laptop. |
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Glad you got it going and I could help in some small way. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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P. S. I've been learning Kicad and even ordered some circuit boards. |
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It's getting dangerous over here. :/ |
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