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From: Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade: what's safest option?
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:36:32
Message-Id: 44DDD817.7000902@vista-express.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade: what's safest option? by "b.n."
1 b.n. wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > I'm finally on summer break and I can take the time for ye olde GCC
4 > 3.3-->3.4 infamous transition.
5 >
6 > I have a couple of questions:
7 > - Is it safe to upgrade with a full desktop
8 > (Xorg+Xfce+Thunderbird+Firefox...) system running, or will I get
9 > everything crashing on me?
10 > - If not, is it safe to upgrade using Knoppix and doing the upgrade in a
11 > chroot? are there side effects?
12 >
13 > Thanks a lot,
14 > M.
15 >
16
17 I had mine running the whole time as normal. I even kept folding
18 running. It didn't seem to matter. Since I hate reboots, I just went
19 to single user then back up again.
20
21 May want to wait for some more thoughts though.
22
23 Dale
24
25 :-)
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