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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:52:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606192352.10179.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b1675090606191315j2606ffebm95c23ff1b423cf5f@mail.gmail.com>

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On Monday 19 June 2006 22:15, Trenton Adams wrote:
> For example, with openldap, you're supposed to slapcat before
> upgrading, and slapadd after upgrading, or you could have database
> problems.  I did not know this.  So when I went from 2.2-2.3, I had
> problems.  But, I didn't have time to get it working, as I needed it
> up and running NOW.  So, I reverted to the old package by masking the
> new one, and then went to find out why it occurred after the fact.
> This is one simple example of potential problems.  But something on a
> wider scale could occur.

Did you have a look at FEATURES=buildpkg? Look at man 5 make.conf. While it 
takes up a couple of GB it allows you to downgrade to a previously installed 
version without needing to compile it again.

-- 
Bo Andresen

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-19 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-19  7:58 [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn Trenton Adams
2006-06-19  8:50 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-06-19  8:58   ` Trenton Adams
2006-06-19 10:13     ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-06-19 20:15       ` Trenton Adams
2006-06-19 21:52         ` Bo Ørsted Andresen [this message]
2006-06-19 21:59           ` Teresa and Dale
2006-06-20  5:26           ` Trenton Adams

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