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On 6/7/06, Roy Wright <royw@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> > I'm watching this topic with curiosity, I have switched to ~x86 |
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> > recently and after it all (and a few debugging) I have all my packages |
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> > testing now, but have not switched to the new GCC for fear of things |
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> > breaking beyound my knowledge on how to fix it. So, if people start |
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> > replying saying things are stable with the new GCC I might switch to |
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> > it completely and wait a few days before the "emerge -e system && |
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> > emerge -e world" completes. |
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> > |
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> I was running stable with a lot of testing unmasked. Then upgraded |
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> to gcc-4.1.1 with an immediate emerge -s && emerge -e, which went |
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> mostly smooth. |
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> Then decided to go ~x86 for the system. That is where the pain was, |
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> particularly expat which caused most of kde/gnome to need to be |
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> upgraded. Unfortunately a lot of the tools to do the rebuild also |
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> depended on expat. So it was update a few packages, rebuild a tool, |
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> update a few more packages, ... Lesson learned is when upgrading |
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> to expat-2, immediately take the hours needed to do the |
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> revdep-rebuild (in all honesty, I didn't see the ewarn message |
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> because I was upgrading 448 packages). It really would have been |
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> nice if the expat-2 emerge package died after giving the instructions |
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> to revdep-rebuild... |
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> So far (5 days) the system has been real nice, no problems. KDE |
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> appears (subjective) faster (with USE=kdehiddenvisibility). So +1 on |
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> upgrading a ~x86 to gcc-4.1.1. |
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> For those considering stable to testing, the main changes are |
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> pam-logon/shadow (unmerge pam-logon), coldplug/udev (unmerge |
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> coldplug), expat (revdep-rebuild), ocaml (dependent packages must |
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> be manually rebuilt afterwards). |
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That is some precious info. I'll remember that when switching next week, thanks. |
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I will not have much problems with dependencies/blocks and stuff |
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because I already switched the whole tree to ~x86, masking some |
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blocks, so, now it is just a matter of recompiling stuff. Anyway, If I |
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switch, do the emerge -e system and world and eventually stop, nothing |
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will (in theory) be broken as long as I mantain compatibility |
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libraries right? I'll switch from 3.4.5 to 4.1, dunno if there were |
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substancial changes like when switching from 3.3 to 3.4. Anyway, gotta |
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read the gcc upgrade guide again. |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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Computer Operator - RS - Brazil |
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