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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:52:09 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: |
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>>> I'd have thought you needed to emerge -e world if you really want to |
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>>> be protected. |
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>> Yea, maybe. I read the man page on emptytree. I get it actually replaces |
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>> by a "reinstall". Does this do more than if I just reboot after |
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>> emerge @system @world and then reboot? |
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>> I'd be curious to know exactly what reinstall does that is not |
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>> covered by just starting up a given code again? |
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>> Is it that it forces a reinstall and stop/starts the binary without |
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>> rebooting? |
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>> Rebooting catches *everything* even better than --emptytree ? |
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> --emptytree has nothing to do with rebooting. It simply forces emerge to |
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> rebuild everything in @world and their dependencies. Once you have done |
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> that, you will have daemons still running the old code, which you could |
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> fix with a reboot, or you could run checkrestart and restart only the |
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> affected programs. |
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> After an emerge -e @world, a reboot is probably best, another reason to |
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> avoid the unnecessary step of emerge -e @world in the first place. |
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After I do a major upgrade or --emptytree, I switch to boot runlevel, |
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check with checkrestart and restart whatever it reports needs it. |
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Generally, switching to boot runlevel catches most everything. |
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Yea, rebooting may be faster but I hate rebooting all the time. :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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