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On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:52 +0000, James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Some time ago, I upgraded several systems I manage. |
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> First was the (painful) upgrade of kde-monolith |
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> to kde-meta. [1] |
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> Then the easier of the two xorg 6.8 to xorg 7.0. [2] |
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> I have kept these pacakges masked for a while on other systems, |
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> some of which I only get possession of sporadically for critical/huge |
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> upgrade. |
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> So my questions are: |
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> 1. Are these still the most updated urls? |
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AFAIK, yes. I also did both of these upgrades recently on a Dell |
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notebook (as well as the dreaded gcc 3.3 -> 3.4), and all three went off |
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without a hitch using those very howtos |
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> 2. Which should be performed first kde monolithic-->meta |
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> or Xorg to Xorg-modular? |
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Doesn't matter, they are independant. FWIW, I found the Xorg upgrade to |
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be far easier - unmerge 6.8, adjust USE, merge 7.0. I had some minor |
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tweaking to do with xorg.conf and ati-drivers, but nothing out of the |
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ordinary for a gentoo user :-) |
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The KDE upgrade was much more painful, mostly because I couldn't just |
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unmerge one package and merge another - I hadn't installed package "kde" |
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way back when, instead I had used kde-base, kde-network etc (about 7 in |
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total). Figuring out which -meta packages and which regular builds to |
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use took some time. The merges themselves went smoothly. |
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The worst was gcc though. I like to tinker with my box, so I took the |
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safe route with "emerge -e system ; emerge -e world" to be sure |
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everything would be rebuilt. It took 36 hours, eventually I had to run |
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it from a tty, niced to 10, so I could use the machine in the meantime |
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> 3. Is there any method to streamline/automate these tasks |
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> so that the machines compile the new software overnight, unattended? |
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Xorg is relatively quick to build, I think mine was an hour once the |
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emerge got going. KDE took several hours. But in both cases it was a few |
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minutes to do the unmerge, so I didn't see the need to automate it. |
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I would advise however that you quickpkg all relevant packages on the |
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machines, just in case, so that you can put them back if the unexpected |
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happens |
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alan |
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