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Op woensdag 7 december 2016 13:57:04 schreef Alan Grimes: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > So why are you running it? |
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> Do I really need to answer that? |
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> I want my system upgraded and the gentle approach isn't working -> try |
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> the rough approach. |
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Hello Alan, |
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It's against my better judgement, but here goes. Mind you, I'm not even going to attempt to solve your emerge problems, but hopefully this will help you nevertheless. |
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As far as I can determine everybody who uses Gentoo but you does not use your script or anything even remotely like it. |
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As far as I can determine every now and then someone other than you has a merge issue, posts to the list and either gets their issue resolved or, rarely, has run into a legitimate issue and needs to patch, or wait for a bug to get fixed. |
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As far as I can determine you update your system both very rarely, and using a method, if it deserves the name, that defies description and consistently runs into issues. |
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These observations lead me to the following hypothesis: your frequency and way of upgrading are actually the *cause* of your problems. |
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Until proven wrong, I'll stick to my hypothesis and offer you these pieces of advice: |
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1. update more frequently |
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2. let portage do what is was designed to do |
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3. read (and by read I do in fact actually mean try to understand) and follow the veritable heap of advice that was already supplied by the generous souls on this list |
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4. rename your script to jackass.sh and let that refer to anybody who even thinks about running it |
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I'll bet you that: |
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1. your updates will go smoother, and |
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2. you´ll find it easier to get help here if for whatever reason you still run into issues. |
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Best regards and good luck with your update, |
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Paul |
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P.S. I sync almost daily and update if there are no big packages that would interfere with whatever I'm doing. Today's update was done while I was writing this. Once again, no issues. Just one 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' left and I'm done. And I didn't even need to figure that out myself, as portage is telling me. So I can focus on other things, although in this case, only time will tell how useful I spent my time. |
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