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Francisco Ares writes: |
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> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Alan McKinnon |
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> <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:41:39 -0300 |
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> > Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > I have managed to delete /var/db. I know this was a very stupid |
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> > > thing to be done, but now it is done and /var/db is gone for good. |
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For every partition I have on my system there is a slightly bigger |
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partition on my backup drive, and I regularly make snapshots with |
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rdiff-backup. I wrote a script to automatize this, because it has to be |
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easy to start the backup, or else I won't do it often enough. |
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> > > Well, that is a good opportunity to have everything built again, |
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> > > time to try new CFLAGS, and so on. |
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And to go amd64 :) See it as an opportunity to do this. For me, the |
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biggest advantage compared to x86 was that I could use more memory. Apart |
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from that, there were not so many differences. |
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> Yes, that's it, now going from ground up. Pity, this system is being |
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> upgraded, both hardware and software, since 15+ years. Never had to |
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> re-install before. |
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Um, Gentoo started to exist around 2002 according to |
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux . |
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> I guess that shows how portage, all dev-guys, and all helpful people who |
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> write in this list are really good. Gentoo rocks! |
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Indeed. I started to use it around early in 2003, when my girlfriend |
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installed it onto my server. And I continued using it until one year ago, |
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when the server became obsolete (and finally died only three months |
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later). I had uptimes of more than a year, and also never had to |
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re-install. |
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Before, I had tried various Linux distros, but I always was disappointed |
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with many things. I hated to upgrade, as this sometimes just did not |
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work, and often broke things, sometimes more than were fixed. I remember |
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the dependency hell of RPM, spending much time on rpmfind.net looking for |
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packages that were compatible... and then came Gentoo, and these problems |
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were gone. The rolling upgrades were just great. Over all, things |
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worked much better. And in case of problems, I often was able to solve |
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them myself. And I learnt to do things by hand - like configuring ISDN. |
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When I tried that before on redHat, I ran into a bug of that fancy GUI |
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utility, that did not make use of my changes until I quit and restarted |
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it. If you do this yourself by directly configuring stuff in /etc/ppp, |
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you not only learn more about the whole thing, you also avoid the bugs |
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that all those GUI utilities seem to have. Simpler seems to be better |
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here. No additional layers calling for trouble. |
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Wonko |