From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ik7Ng-0004Hp-Lu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:12:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9N0B6fh007144; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:11:06 GMT Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9N06eTs002169 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:06:40 GMT Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A543561A for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:06:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:06:39 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 3ZUCp9cspD3Hj0H3A9NBWAMddvu3z2c3uVRU9evci6QD 1193097999 Received: from [192.168.31.10] (cpe-24-167-121-156.satx.res.rr.com [24.167.121.156]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE8F8DC8 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:06:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new box From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20071023005006.7bec8efd@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <20071019183538.GA4639@sympatico.ca> <200710201444.58927.wonko@wonkology.org> <200710221839.35410.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20071022213058.GF4634@sympatico.ca> <20071023005006.7bec8efd@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: A Myth Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:06:38 -0500 Message-Id: <1193097998.17395.7.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5bedefbc-a4e1-4075-b06c-1f209459a426 X-Archives-Hash: a15f9041470a05ab805787c2a85d7bd5 On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 00:50 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I've got my new box booting correctly > > & am c 30 % thro' re-merging all the pkgs listed by 'emerge -ep > > system', some of which were installed from Stage 3, but now have > later > > versions. I never fall for 'emerge world' or 'emerge system': > > You don't trust emerge system, but you are 30% through emerge system? > > > there are far too many tales of woe on this list due to such trust > > Bad news travels, good news stays put. Think how noisy this list would > gt > if everyone posted every time they had a successful emerge! Success. Actually on one of my boxes I have a cron job that runs once a month that effectively does an 'emerge -e world'. And usually I have 2 or 3 out of 700+ packages fail (usually because /usr/src/linux isn't pointing to the current kernel or once in a while avidemux will fail (it's hard masked anyway). But as always YMMV. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list