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On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:55:23 +0000, bn wrote: |
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> ...I would like to update the thing piece-by-piece, to troubleshoot |
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> better whatever happens. |
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Start with a system update, then emerge --oneshot individual, |
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non-QT, packages to reduce the number of packages in the big emerge. |
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> > If not, you can either |
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> > unmask portage, emerge portage and try again, or if you don't like |
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> > that approach, you must do it the older, longer way: |
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> I could do it, if I have some safety option that allows me to downgrade |
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> portage later, in case I find problems. I am quite conservative with |
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> this system (it's a machine I use for day-to-day work) and I wouldn't |
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> like to have it borked. |
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Install and run demerge, then quickpkg your existing installed packages. |
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Demerge lets you roll back to any point at which you saved its config. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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