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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FsRkS-0005Wz-Lv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:57:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5JLuGjt008379; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:56:16 GMT Received: from cicero0.cybercity.dk (cicero0.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.52]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5JLpNB6012525 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:51:23 GMT Received: from user2.cybercity.dk (user2.cybercity.dk [212.242.41.35]) by cicero0.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2DC678AC7 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:51:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from BA.zlin.dk (port78.ds1-abs.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.227.17]) by user2.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 611A42867B8 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:51:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Bo =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:52:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <9b1675090606190058o68552c60ge214d179522cccd5@mail.gmail.com> <200606191213.53725.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <9b1675090606191315j2606ffebm95c23ff1b423cf5f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9b1675090606191315j2606ffebm95c23ff1b423cf5f@mail.gmail.com> 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="nextPart3210163.hX8xzQBZrR"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200606192352.10179.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: c91f0263-c07f-4345-ba47-22605427a69b X-Archives-Hash: 9d8693558167677f53e606bbf9838b0f --nextPart3210163.hX8xzQBZrR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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. =A0I did not know this. =A0So when I went from 2.2-2.3, I had > problems. =A0But, I didn't have time to get it working, as I needed it > up and running NOW. =A0So, 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. =A0But something on a > wider scale could occur. Did you have a look at FEATURES=3Dbuildpkg? Look at man 5 make.conf. While = it=20 takes up a couple of GB it allows you to downgrade to a previously installe= d=20 version without needing to compile it again. =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart3210163.hX8xzQBZrR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBElxyK8/kKEzmwNNoRAnxmAJ9ZQyqXy9FYjF/l+iOdnUgxTWyEzgCfUtBT uOuY1CaotMDK3/hjmRK4c3Q= =L+zN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3210163.hX8xzQBZrR-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list