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On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:19:48 +0200 |
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Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hi there! |
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> Yes, there are still gentoo machines out there running libexpat-1, |
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> and I am upgrading one now. I survived several of those upgrades yet, |
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> but those were PCs I had better access to, and where a huge |
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> revdep-rebuild was no big problem. |
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> But this machine here is slow, and I do not have powerful distcc |
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> hosts for it. And it is powered off in the night. But it should come |
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> up back and be able to be used. |
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> Couldn't I just save /usr/lib/libexpat.* before upgrading libexpat, |
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> start revdep-rebuild, and put the old libraries back, so all |
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> applications stil have their libraries until revdep-rebuild has |
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> finished?. |
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> Wonko |
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Stupid idea, but would the current ~ portage now make the whole upgrade |
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a lot easier with FEATURES="preserve-libs" ? |
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