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William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:45 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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>>> When an old (circa 2001) desktop came out of retirement a few months |
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>>> ago, I shuffled across Linuxes trying to find something that worked |
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>>> well, and finally hit on gentoo. I eventually switched to ~x86 because |
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>>> I was tired of using versions of apps from 6 months ago... Too make a |
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>>> long story short, I have a new computer now and that one is going back |
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>>> into retirement. I may want to use it more in future and would like to |
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>>> know how I would go about "mothballing" it so that if it ever needs to |
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>>> be used again, bringing it up to date will be as smooth and painless |
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>>> as possible. If I need to resurrect it, it will probably be at least a |
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>>> year from now. What would you recommend? |
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>>> Marcus |
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>> Portage is better but that is a while to go without a update. It mostly |
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>> depends on what all is updated with some sort of hiccup between the time |
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>> you shut it down and the time you try to update it again. If there is |
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>> no major problems then it wouldn't be a issue but of there is multiple |
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>> packages with issues, then you have a problem. |
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>> Me, I would put it in a closet or something with a ethernet cable hooked |
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>> up and just update it say once every 6 to 8 weeks. Just hope for the |
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>> best after that. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> I have an "emergency desktop" system at work that I recently pulled out |
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> of storage to use (laptop HD died!). Once used, I spent quite a while |
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> updating it and was just going to put it aside using Dales suggestion |
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> when this thread got me thinking. |
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> I am going to clean out gnome and anything not of immediate use leaving |
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> just a bare desktop and minimal tools needed for emergency use (OO, |
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> evolution) - I'll replace gnome with fluxbox first. |
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> Then if it needs to get serious use other packages can be added on the |
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> fly. If it looks like longer term use, its easy to add gnome etc back |
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> overnight, and while continuing to use the fluxbox desktop. |
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> The minimal system should be quicker and simpler to update than a crufty |
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> system - and if you have to update much of gnome and the like, |
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> updating/reinstalling might take longer than building from scratch |
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> anyway (going by my last update to gnome :) |
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> BillK |
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I should also add that I use KDE. So, updating all that takes time plus |
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if there are packages with "issues" then that adds to the grief. It |
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appears that it depends on just what you have installed. If it is a |
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bare system, then it may not be to bad. If it is a full blown KDE like |
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mine, then that could take a really long while. Of course, portage has |
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been a lot better at handling blocks here lately too. There are |
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exceptions and they always confuse the heck out of me but it is a lot |
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better. That should shorten the update time for a lot of packages. |
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Maybe a 'emerge -ep world | genlop -p' would be in order here. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |