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On Thursday 10 January 2008, Tamas Sarga wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I moved from my flat a year ago, and now I' went back. At my |
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> temporary place I wasn't be able to reach the internet, so I didn't |
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> update the system. Now I'd like to update it. Should I do anything |
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> special in addition to an emerge -e system; emerge -e world? Are |
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> there anything I should attend to? |
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Generally you can just emerge -uND world and we done with it. But life |
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isn't always so simple. I can think of a few updates in the last while |
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that were problematic, but I think they were all more than a year ago: |
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Xorg 6.x -> 7.x - there's wiki pages for that at gentoo-wiki.com |
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gcc-3.3.x -> 3.4.x - check gentoo.org/docs for the full info |
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glibc-2.3 -> 2.4 - there was something about that too, I forget... |
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The update to python-2.5 had a specific procedure (?) |
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And there was a portage update as well with a change in on-disk format. |
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This one caught me, as an upgrade path was maintained for several |
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versions, then dropped. My upgrade fell in that window. But that was |
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way back in the early 2.0 versions, I think you will be safe. |
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Oddly, kde-3.5.7 to 3.5.8 recently was a pain for me. I hadn't updated |
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in two months and the first emerge world failed about 8 times, all on |
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kde stuff. It felt as if the DEPENDS were evaluated in the wrong order |
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as emerge --resume --skipfirst allowed it to continue. Then I would |
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emerge world again with less failures, and do it again. IIRC it took 4 |
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runs thorough, but once it was done everything did seem to work |
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correctly. |
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With long intervals between updates like you have here, I prefer to make |
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a quickpkg of vital system stuff (gcc, glibc, python, portage, bash) as |
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a safety measure, then run emerge -pvuND system and update those vital |
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packages manually - the reason is to force me to look at the portage |
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output and not miss important messages. Then emerge the rest of system |
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followed by the rest of world. It's the long way round but it gives me |
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the warm fuzzy safety net feeling. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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