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Patrick Lauer posted on Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:00:38 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> On 09/20/11 15:09, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> > > What do you guys think? |
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>> I haven't ever tried it but, what would occur if that people with |
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>> really updated systems simply unpack an updated stage3 tarball in their |
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>> / and, later, try to update? |
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> Usually things turn ugly - used to be that portage saw that there are |
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> two glibcs installed and unmerges one (oh crummy, you only had one? |
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> better reinstall now ...) and other really disturbing side-effects. |
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> Just unpacking a stage3 over a live system is a nice game, but rarely |
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> has sane results. You'd need to use a VDB-aware tool like qmerge to do |
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> it cleanly, and then you still don't have a working system (new glibc on |
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> old kernel, new udev on old kernel, lots of situations where things |
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> don't work out) |
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Thanks, this was far clearer (and more correct) than my attempt. |
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The point about old kernel incompatibilities is going to be especially |
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valid on way outdated installations, and it's something I entirely |
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missed, because especially with the kernel, I tend toward the leading |
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edge rather than trailing, and because I bypass gentoo for the kernel |
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entirely, using my own scripts and upstream git sources, so I don't tend |
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to think in terms of gentoo/userspace kernel deps at all. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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