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Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> this is a very general question. |
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> Having used LinuxFromScratch for several years, I've switched to |
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> Gentoo a few month ago. |
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> Im must say I'm quite impressed. |
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> Still, for a newcomer like me, there remains one problem. |
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> How to upgrade Gentoo? |
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> Having tried to upgrade to udev-103 I fell flat on my face until |
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> I've found a hint by some helpful soul which indicated |
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> that I should unmerge some packages, rc-update del some |
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> scripts before I upgrade to udev-103. |
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> The next step which I'm afraid of is upgrading |
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> to glibc-2.5 |
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> Having destroyed (the system) of my machine some years |
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> ago by upgrading glibc (on Suse), I know that this |
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> is not a trivial step. |
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> So, the question: |
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> Is there a general source of information about |
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> warnings, actions to be taking, etc to be followed |
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> when upgrading certains critical packages. |
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> Many thanks for your help and hints, |
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> Helmut. |
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Generally "emerge --sync && emerge -DuNav world" keeps your gentoo |
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up-to-date. Cleaning useless packages is done by "emerge --depclean |
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-av". Resolving and fixing broken dependencies is done by |
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"revdep-rebuild -av". |
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HTH |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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