Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward? - Update 2 - SUCCESS! - CURRENT!!!

[Grant Taylor]

On 3/8/21 4:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> It would have to be done before the first update, when the repo was
> set to a date just after the last update.

Yes and no.

It really could have been done at any point along the way.

Also, with the git version of the portage repo, I could switch back to 
the branch from any time I wanted to.

> You can rephrase that as "I left it at the default", which is an
> acceptable answer :)

*nod*

> It means you probably spent a lot of time compile gcc versions only
> to carry on using the old version, but as you said, this wasn't about
> efficiency.

Wouldn't the next execution of gcc, post Emerge & Installation use the 
newly emerged binary?

If not next package in a given emerge run didn't use the new gcc, I 
would fully expect that subsequent emerges would use the new gcc.

> You were going to emerge -e @world at the end anyway, which would
> get everything built with the latest toolchain.

Yes.

I have initiated a full system backup. I'll start an `emerge -e @world` 
after that finishes.

I'll actually do the full suite:

1)  emerge -e @world
2)  emerge --depclean --verbose n
3)  emerge @preserved-rebuild
4)  revdep-rebuild

I expect that #3 should be a NoOp and just burn CPU cycles.

I don't know anything else that can be done to make a Gentoo box happier 
(from a software standpoint).

> Most of the effort for you was developing the procedure. All the real
> effort was left to the computer.

Exactly!

Well, developing the method /and/ establishing trust therein.

> I was thinking of a week max.

I suspect that would be quite safe.



-- 
Grant. . . .
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