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On 30/09/2020 15:57, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> If you wait many months between updates, things tend to get more |
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> difficult, and you may have to futz with things to get updated |
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> (e.g. remove a package or two, update, then reinstall the removed |
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> packages). It's sometimes not obvious how to proceed. |
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I don't think my main system has been updated for several years ... (but |
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that's because the old system that worked was decommissioned, and the |
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main system was pretty much guaranteed to crash when emerging...). So |
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I'm now building a new machine from scratch. |
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That said, if I haven't updated in a while I use one of two tricks ... |
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(1) when "emerge world" falls over I just emerge everything explicitly |
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that looks like it will update. After a couple of attempts, world often |
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runs to completion. |
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(2) if stuff won't emerge (and it doesn't look something critical) I |
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just "emerge -C1". As soon as I've removed enough to fix the blockage, |
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whatever I've deleted will just re-appear. |
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Cheers, |
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