From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EatCt-0003MY-SV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:06:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jACB58Bf018775; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:05:08 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jACB1Jki006364 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:01:19 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r28so797809nza for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 03:01:18 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=obOIm3VRGLh28M42QPmVnVx0dcl2oaJM12VHWW1FiYd1zVMXMr9sT6Fk3srePIPrZlV7qNEqWLA3SQEI7vL2RcczGPk++ECH4slYcEm8EooRgIycJi4xDduNvdfazX2VkLDmtuuShBBbSAYwCHgs5Pk5JisVUsZubBGFMruG998= Received: by 10.36.100.4 with SMTP id x4mr2159044nzb; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 03:01:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from paradise.home ( [202.177.154.214]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 15sm431459nzo.2005.11.12.03.01.16; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 03:01:18 -0800 (PST) From: abhay 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200511111646.41923.listjiro@gmail.com> <20051111192206.5cb19577@chi.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <20051111192206.5cb19577@chi.speakeasy.net> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2174139.rcnk5flNhv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511121632.08638.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: dc1a98ac-34e3-4586-81b8-32a9b3b3d494 X-Archives-Hash: fae08bb0415df01605b127412fdb4248 --nextPart2174139.rcnk5flNhv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 have always thought that what would I do a year down the lane when stuff li= ke=20 gcc/glibc (and other important things) are upgraded in major ways. These=20 commands will help :-) Thanks from my side. Abhay --nextPart2174139.rcnk5flNhv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDdcuwxrDNZ6sJF8cRAsIOAJ0d3Oeh4/ItBpiNjbfS/CEiyG+1fACguLk4 gkxMaOPinR2Kf6oHpvSZzY8= =6zsm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2174139.rcnk5flNhv-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list