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From: abhay <abhay.ilugd@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is recommended behavior for complete updating of an old system ?
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:31:57 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511121632.08638.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051111192206.5cb19577@chi.speakeasy.net>

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On Saturday 12 Nov 2005 8:52 am, Bob Sanders wrote:
> 	emerge sync once per week and let it run over the weekend doing updates.
>
> 	About once per year -
> 		- emerge sync
> 		- ufed and check out the USE flags.  Some changes occur and they need a
> 			bit of cleaning.
> 		- emerge -eav system  (no need to d world.)
> 		- emerge -uDNav world
> 		- python-updater
> 		- perl-cleaner all
> 		- revdep-rebuild
Even though I am not facing problems like the original thread starter but I 
have always thought that what would I do a year down the lane when stuff like 
gcc/glibc (and other important things) are upgraded in major ways. These 
commands will help :-)

Thanks from my side.

Abhay

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-12 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-11 15:46 [gentoo-user] What is recommended behavior for complete updating of an old system ? Jimmy Rosen
2005-11-12  3:22 ` Bob Sanders
2005-11-12 11:01   ` abhay [this message]
2005-11-14  4:36   ` michael
2005-11-15  5:50     ` Jimmy Rosen

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