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Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > I saw the news item about 4.8.3-SSP, which I think is a good idea, but |
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> > how deeply, if at all, do I need to rebuild packages ? |
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> You don't need to rebuild, although there are known problems with having |
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> both 4.7 and 4.8 installed, and having 4.7 be the active one (or any |
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> case where an older version is the active one.) |
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Hmmmmm. |
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> You should be able to just switch to 4.8 without rebuilding anything. |
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> That's what I did. Of course it can't hurt to rebuild everything, but |
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> you can schedule that for later (like an overnight rebuild of <at> world |
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> with --keep-going). It's not critical to do it immediately. |
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OK, so I use updated (sync/compile) using 4.7.3. I did have to |
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rebuild webkit-gtk, as todd suggested. Now I'm going to switch |
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over to 4.8.3 and rebuild @sytem and @world. These are fun |
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and not big of a deal with my FX8350 and 32g or ram..... |
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thx for the advise, everyone, |
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James |
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