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On 2016-05-20 19:33, walt wrote: |
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> I spent most of today updating from perl-5.22 to perl-5.24 because so |
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> many packages failed to install. I ran perl-cleaner about a hundred |
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> times and tried emerge -ac in between, which always failed because it |
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> falsely accused me of not doing emerge -auND. |
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> Finally I got through the perl update and noticed a message saying |
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> 'emerge -auND --with-bdeps=y is the ultimate way to update...' so I |
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> added the '--with-bdeps=y' and another twenty perl-related packages got |
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> rebuilt after I thought I was done. |
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> Now I'm really done, I think, but I'm afraid to reboot this machine. |
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What could possibly go wrong ;)? How important of a machine is this? I |
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usually only get worried when rebooting after a kernel upgrade on |
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headless machines, but that's just me. |
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If you have console access to the machine, I think it should be able to |
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at least boot without perl, so I'd say go for it. |
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Alec |
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