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080628 William Kenworthy top-posted (ugh!): |
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> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:41 -0700, Grant wrote: |
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>> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day |
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>> and every time I try to do something new it doesn't work. |
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>> Anybody else experiencing that lately? |
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> My Gentoo systems get this way for one of two reasons: |
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> (1) Some config files get overwritten (make.conf was one time) by accident |
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> and a few packages get installed with the wrong build settings |
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> (2)system inconsistency, mainly with libraries. |
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> revdep-rebuild may or may not help - if not, check all the meta files |
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> (`equery check portage`, and then manually check make.conf etc) |
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> sand do an 'emerge -e world' and go make several (dozen) cups of coffee |
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No problems here now or (almost) ever. My 1st Gentoo machine (2003) |
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is still available as a stand-by, last updated 0803; |
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the current one (2007) has had no problems since install 0711 . |
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My observation -- I've said this previously, but no-one takes it up -- |
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is that the 'emerge -xyzabc world' approach to keeping things upto-date |
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is the source of much anguish for users & needs serious updating itself. |
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I run 'eix-sync' once/week (later today Sat, in fact), |
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note down the pkgs which it reports updates for (nice colored list), |
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run 'emerge -Dup world' to get the correct order, |
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then emerge pkgs individually (occasionally omitting something I don't want); |
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if it suggests 'revdep-rebuild', I do that with '--pretend' |
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& again emerge the resulting list individually (omitting eg 'gcc'). |
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I have a list of all the pkgs which are installed, |
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with dates & what depends on them (if anything) or if they're world/system, |
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which I carefully keep upto-date as I emerge each pkg. |
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It's all a Sat job, which takes 1 hour on average. |
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If I want a 'testing' pkg, I use 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"' |
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& record the fact in my pkg list (above). Done this way, there's no harm. |
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Here are a few lines from my file 'pkg.ref' : |
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W 080623 app-office/openoffice-2.4.1 [ ~ : compile: 2 h 11 m ; 2,3 GB ] |
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W 080517 app-portage/eix-0.12.5 [~] |
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W 071025 app-portage/euses-2.5.4 |
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W 080608 app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4_rc4 [~] |
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W 071025 app-portage/mirrorselect-1.2 |
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080223 app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29 [for java-config-wrapper] |
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S 080510 app-shells/bash-3.2_p33 |
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071104 app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.2 [for -xsl-stylesheets] |
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W 071118 app-text/catdoc-0.94.2 [~] |
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080301 app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.73.2 [for mutt] |
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071105 app-text/enscript-1.6.4-r3 [for kdeprint] |
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The result of all this is that I have (almost) never had any problem |
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with my Gentoo machines since I started using Gentoo 0310 . |
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'emerge world' is the source of many problems regularly reported here. |
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HTH (smile) |
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