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Howdy, |
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Finally completed the gcc 3.4.4 upgrade and thought I'd pass along a few |
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hard learned lessons. |
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I run a mostly stable system updated almost daily. The sync is |
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ran as part of cron.daily. |
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Lesson #1, turn off cron portage scripts prior to multi-day emerge. |
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Got bit by some Sun java package updates needing to be downloaded. |
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I also use rsnapshot to keep some current backups around. |
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Lesson #2, turn off rsnapshot prior to rebuilding the world. Can |
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you say good bye to disk space? Yes, 36GB root down to 0. |
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Lesson #3, Konqueror's "File Size View" is excellent. I wasted |
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hours trying to figure out why I was running out of disk space until |
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I discovered the File Size View which pointed the problem right |
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at rsnapshot. |
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Lesson #4, "emerge --skipfirst --resume" is GREAT. I kept a list of |
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the three non-java packages that failed. After completing |
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emerge -e world, I did a emerge sync, low and behold, those three |
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packages had updates and then compiled successfully. |
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The only side-effect I have noticed is that KDE 3.4 system sounds |
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now work... :-) |
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Have fun, |
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Roy |
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