Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.14.1 upgrade

[Michael Mol]

106 minutes, 177 packsges on a fresh install (on a dual E5345 I just got my
hands on). God help you if you if you have KDE installed, though. Even
without it, my core desktop has somewhere between 500-700 packages. Builds
overnight on my Phenom 9650.

ZZ
On Nov 25, 2011 2:04 PM, "Florian Philipp" <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote:

> Am 25.11.2011 19:11, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
> >
> > On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, "微菜" <microcai@×××××××××××××.org
> > <mailto:microcai@×××××××××××××.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >> 于 2011年11月24日 15:34, justin 写道:
> >> > On 24/11/11 06:27, Paul Hartman wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> After emerging glibc-2.14.1 today, pam stopped working, which
> >> >> prevented KDE from working and some other things. I got this kind of
> >> >> message:
> >> >>
> >> >> /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by
> >> >> /lib64/libcrypt.so.1)
> >> >>
> >> >> There were no @preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild found nothing. I
> >> >> rebuilt pam and things seem to be working again. Are there any other
> >> >> packages I should rebuild before encountering a problem? Or some way
> >> >> to detect which need to be rebuilt? Should I re-emerge world against
> >> >> my new glibc? :)
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >> Paul
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Hi Paul,
> >> >
> >> > after an glibc upgrade it is time to do an
> >> >
> >> > emerge -e system world
> >>
> >> you must be kidding me . it will take days to complete.
> >>
> >
> > On my virtualized servers, emerge -e @system @world, a total of
> > 170-something packages, takes only about 6-7 hours. Remember, these are
> > VMs, which means the 2 vCPUs I assigned them are actually shared with
> > other VMs.
> >
> > On a non-virtualized system, should be faster. Of course, if you have
> > sizable packages, it might take around 24 hours to complete.
> >
> > Rgds,
> >
>
> I've used Gentoo since 2006 and never had any reason to emerge -e. I can
> also cite posts on this mailing list going back as far as 2007 (just my
> local archive, mind you) that say it is unnecessary for glibc updates.
> Or, to cite Volker Armin Hemmann's eloquent reply from 08-11-2007: "no" ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp
>
>