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120120 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:37:06 -0800, Grant wrote: |
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>> I have an old Gentoo system that hasn't been updated or used at all |
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>> in at least 2 years. It's remote but I have SSH access. |
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> Take small steps. emerge -pv @system first |
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> and be prepared to emerge packages a few at a time. |
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That's always the best way to update a Gentoo system. |
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I've never done a simple 'emerge -??? world' & hoped for the best |
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& have never run off the rails since first installing Gentoo 2003. |
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'emerge -Dup world' lists all the pkgs Portage wants to update |
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& shows the order in which it plans to tackle them : |
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you can use that to do a few pkgs at a time & as you do them, |
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check the output, warnings etc. |
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