Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

[Allan Gottlieb]

Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote:
>
>> Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 19 November 2010, Allan
>> Gottlieb did opine thusly:
>>
>> > >    It seems, however, that you're still going down the path of emerge
>> > >
>> > > -e @world. Why is that? If it's just to be confident that everything
>> > > is back to the way it should be then I understand that. I've done it
>> > > myself many times in the last 12 years.
>> >
>> > Yes that is the reason.
>>
>>
>> Sounds like the big guns approach, can be valid at times.
>>
>> I'm usually the first one to chip in about emerge -e world being stupid
>> when
>> someone reads the gcc upgrade guide, but sometimes you have a box that just
>> will not fix itself despite hours of troubleshooting. In a case like this a
>> full remerge often fixes mysterious but actual real problems.
>>
>>
> I've had pretty much the same thing happen.  In my case, 'eix' showed that I
> had 0.9.8p and 1.0.0 installed
> in two different slots.   However the 3 files that belong to 0.9.8 were
> missing.  Fortunately, I run with --buildpkg
> so I had a binary package lying around.  Emerging it with -gK restored the
> files, and everything was okay.
>
> OTOH, a couple of years ago I did an emerge -e and regretted it.  It kept
> stopping because something wasn't
> configured right, and I had to go through dispatch-conf on everything up to
> that point before I could get it to
> proceed.  Good luck with your "few days".  Mine was more like 2 weeks of
> stop-and-go.

It finished in just under one day.  I use elogviewer which can show logs
in any order, but really there was little to look at.  Fairly clean all
the way through.

allan