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On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:59:07 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> 1) I don't see any mention of hald & dbus in the upgrade guide. I |
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>> currently have them turned on. Are they still necessary? I know hald |
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>> is going away one of these days. Is it too early for me to dump it. |
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>> Possibly dump hald before the upgrade, make sure everything is |
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>> consistent, and then do the ~amd64 work? |
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> Don't try to second guess what the system needs, just upgrade and do a |
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> --depclean. #~Portage will let you know if anything is no longer needed. |
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> You'll probably find depclean wants to remove a few things, but hal won't |
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> be one of them. |
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OK. |
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>> 2) Any problem if I do emerge -DuN @system and then make the changes |
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>> in the upgrade guide followed by @world? I've turned of xdm. I don't |
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>> have a UPS on this system yet so @system would shrink the window of a |
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>> power outage causing me problems. (It's pouring rain here today. It |
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>> will likely happen no matter what) ;-) |
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> Doing system first makes good sense. Then you can update your config |
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> files, follow the openrc update etc and then reboot. The world part of |
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> the update will take quite a while, especially if you use KDE or GNOME. |
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<hehe> Less than most PC. It's an i7-980x with 24GB of RAM with RAID1. |
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My first really nice machine in years. |
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Thanks! |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. |
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