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On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 00:50 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > I've got my new box booting correctly |
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> > & am c 30 % thro' re-merging all the pkgs listed by 'emerge -ep |
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> > system', some of which were installed from Stage 3, but now have |
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> later |
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> > versions. I never fall for 'emerge world' or 'emerge system': |
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> You don't trust emerge system, but you are 30% through emerge system? |
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> > there are far too many tales of woe on this list due to such trust |
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> Bad news travels, good news stays put. Think how noisy this list would |
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> gt |
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> if everyone posted every time they had a successful emerge! |
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Success. Actually on one of my boxes I have a cron job that runs once a |
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month that effectively does an 'emerge -e world'. And usually I have 2 |
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or 3 out of 700+ packages fail (usually because /usr/src/linux isn't |
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pointing to the current kernel or once in a while avidemux will fail |
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(it's hard masked anyway). |
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But as always YMMV. |
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Albert W. Hopkins |
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