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Philip Webb wrote: |
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> The defective version of 'patch' had got into 'testing', |
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> where the only remaining problems are supposed to be in the ebuild; |
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> in fact in this case, there was still a serious problem upstream |
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> & that version of 'patch' has been re-masked (I believe). |
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> Anyway, don't do testing on the machine you use for everyday computing. |
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> If you want to get into testing, use a dedicated machine for it. |
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> It's late Friday, so let me stick my neck out again |
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> (grins, sighs & gets another beer out of the fridge). |
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> At least once/month, if not once/week, someone reports on Gentoo User: |
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> "I did an emerge sync, installed the latest blahblah-1.2.3, |
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> did 'emerge world' & something dreadful has happened to my system". |
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> I've been using Gentoo for more than 6 years & it's never happened to me. |
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> I believe the reason is that I follow my own advice as above: |
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> I do install 'testing' versions of non-vital pkgs (eg 'eix') |
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> & items which are well-supported upstream (eg KDE, kernel), |
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> but I am very cautious about installing testing versions of system pkgs |
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> whose collapse would do real damage to my everyday activities. |
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> Even when stuff is well-supported upstream, I give it a few weeks |
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> to see if there are reports anywhere of bad things happening. |
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> Eg I have not moved upto the testing 'eix-0.18.3', |
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> because it requires that I replace 'lzma-utils' with 'xz-utils': |
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> it's not worth the risk of doing real damage elsewhere |
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> simply to get the latest version of 'eix', which is useful but non-essential. |
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> When 'xz-utils' reaches 'stable' (and has a less frightening version number), |
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> I will happily make the upgrade. |
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> Also, I never do a bald 'emerge world'. I look thro' the output of 'eix-sync', |
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> write -- with a pencil+paper -- a list of installed pkgs which have changed, |
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> run 'emerge -Dup world' to see what order of emerging is recommended, |
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> then individually 'emerge -pv <pkg>' & -- if all looks well -- 'emerge <pkg>'. |
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> Yes, it takes a bit longer for my weekly update session (tomorrow Sat), |
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> but I don't risk the nightmare of reducing my system to chaos |
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> with all the extra frantic labor which would result. |
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> Again, I've been doing this for 6 years with Gentoo on 2 machines |
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> & haven't run into any major setbacks. |
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> By all means, ignore my advice & do it your own ways (smile). |
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I do somewhat similar to you. I just use the -a option instead and I |
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don't write things down. I just do a emerge -uvDNa world and give it |
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all a once over, USE flags, what gets updated and if I want it etc etc. |
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I also run latest on eix, portage and some of its utils. I try to stay |
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away from unstable system packages as it seems you do as well. I'm |
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still on baselayout 1 and not planning on the openrc thingy yet either. |
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May want to get ready tho, it is coming. |
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I did my first install from a Gentoo 1.4 CD. That was quite a while ago. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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