Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.6.0

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 27 Apr 2016 17:52:07 Dale wrote:

> I seem to recall glibc being one of those packages that you can't
> downgrade.  Sort of chicken to upgrade, just in case the problem gets
> even worse.

You could back your system partitions up first, to have a system to revert to
if necessary. I've had to do that quite a lot while getting this new box
installed.

It helps that I have several partitions, thus:

/dev/nvme0n1p5  /                       ext4    relatime        1 1
/dev/nvme0n1p2  /boot                   vfat    noauto          1 2
/dev/nvme0n1p6  /var                    ext4    relatime        1 2
/dev/nvme0n1p7  /home                   ext4    relatime        1 2
/dev/nvme0n1p8  /home/prh/boinc         ext4    relatime        1 3
/dev/nvme0n1p9  /home/prh/common        ext4    relatime        1 3
/dev/nvme0n1p10 /usr/local              ext4    relatime        1 2
/dev/nvme0n1p11 /usr/portage            ext4    relatime        1 2
/dev/nvme0n1p12 /usr/portage/packages   ext4    relatime        1 3
/dev/nvme0n1p13 /usr/portage/distfiles  ext4    relatime        1 3
/dev/nvme0n1p17 /home/prh/.VirtualBox   ext4    relatime        1 3
/dev/nvme0n1p3  none                    swap    sw              0 0
tmpfs           /var/tmp/portage        tmpfs   noatime,uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775  0 0
tmpfs           /tmp                    tmpfs   noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777   0 0
proc            /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
shm             /dev/shm                tmpfs   nodev,nosuid    0 0

Not sure about those last two - are they still needed nowadays?

-- 
Rgds
Peter