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On Tuesday 11 September 2007, econti wrote: |
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> Hi everybody, this is my first post on the list. |
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> Well, I'm running a 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 2006.0 on a AMD64 machine. |
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> Now I'd like to make a world upgrade. I know that I should run the |
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> following commands: |
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> emerge --sync |
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> emerge --update --deep --newuse world |
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> emerge --depclean |
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> revdep-rebuild |
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> A little question: how long does it take to complete the upgrade? |
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> (sure, it depends on the installed software, but please give me an |
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> approximation) |
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Ouch. That's 2 years of stuff you need to update. Set aside 48 hours if |
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you have gnome/kde or openoffice installed. |
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With that amount of updates, I would recommend you run 'emerge -e world' |
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instead of 'emerge -uND world' - there aren't that many packages that |
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have not changed so you might as well do everything in order. |
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You will also need to go to Gentoo docs and read up on the upgrade guide |
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for gcc-3.3 to gcc-3.4, plus the xorg-6.8 to xorg-7.0 transistion. Both |
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those upgrades happened in this timeframe and both bit many people in |
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the rear end. |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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