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On Saturday, April 16, 2016 07:07:16 PM Dale wrote: |
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> J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > On Saturday, April 16, 2016 11:25:23 AM Dale wrote: |
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> >> Top posting since John started it. lol |
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> > |
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> > Refusing to top-post, even when others do... |
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> > Makes for even more fun to trace the conversations... |
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> >> Can you two explain this to Alan Grimes? He seems to think emerge has |
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> >> some very serious problems. ;-) |
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> > Trying to explain it to him will be as useful as discussing science with |
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> > members of the Westboro Baptist Church or similar.... |
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> I was thinking fence post but we have the same idea. ;-) |
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You're referring to a LART? |
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=LART |
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> >> I might add, I recently went through the KDE plasma update which |
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> >> involved a ton of rebuilds/upgrades. Since I run a mix of stable and |
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> >> unstable, it took some effort to get it all sorted BUT emerge did a |
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> >> pretty good job of telling me what was needed. Once I got the proper |
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> >> things in the keyword and USE file, it was off to compile land for |
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> >> several hours. I might add, I had to use some of Alan McKinnion's logic |
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> >> to understand emerge's output. |
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> > Aside from that, the upgrade guide was a very useful step-by-step guide to |
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> > avoid any blockers during the upgrade. |
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> Actually, I think the only info I got from it was that I had to switch |
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> to sddm and emerge the plasma package. Since I have a mix of stable and |
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> unstable here, it went down a whole new path after that. I had hard |
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> blockers, other packages that had to be keyworded and to change some USE |
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> flags as well. If I was running stable only, then the guide would |
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> likely have worked step by step. It did give the basic info that I |
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> needed even tho I was running a install that was different. |
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It also gave some commands on how to find packages you'd need to temporarily |
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remove from the world-file. |
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> The big point tho, emerge did a pretty darn good job of dropping bread |
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> crumbs on what needed changing. On a couple occasions, it took me a few |
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> reads to grasp what it was saying but it was there and I was able to |
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> figure it out. So, unlike Alan G and his problems, emerge did a good job. |
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> >> I might add, I also recently did a emerge -e world. Out of all the over |
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> >> 1,400 packages installed on this machine, only one failed. I can't |
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> >> recall the package name but I seem to recall keywording to a newer |
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> >> version and that worked. Still, 1 out of over 1400 packages. That's |
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> >> pretty dang good. About 99.9% success. Almost like 24 caret gold. |
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> > 1 out of 1400 is, in my opinion, 1 too many. |
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> > But compared to the likely 400 you'd have had about 5 or 6 years ago, I am |
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> > extremely pleased. |
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> That is what I was talking about. Many years ago, even thinking you |
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> could do a emerge -e world of that many packages without at least a |
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> dozen failures of some kind would be nuts. I'm talking rooms with |
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> rubber walls nuts too. Actually, if I had not forgot to keyword that |
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> new version, it would have worked. That version had already failed and |
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> I should have done the keyword change first. So really, it was my fault. |
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Not removing failing versions.... Like to life dangerously? |
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> >> It seems you two are not alone on being some happy Gentooers. :-D |
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> > Count me there as well. |
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> > I have long passed the point where I will accept bad and unreliable |
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> > systems |
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> > when I can help it. |
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> The longest uptime I have ever had was running Gentoo. If it wasn't for |
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> power failures, I may not ever reboot this thing. lol |
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Same here, but I tend to reboot only for kernel upgrades. Power failures don't |
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happen that much here. |
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Joost |