Re: [gentoo-user] Update After A Year

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:57:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> Generally you can just emerge -uND world and we done with it. But life 
> isn't always so simple. I can think of a few updates in the last while 
> that were problematic, but I think they were all more than a year ago:

The expat upgrade was less than a year ago for stable systems.

I'd go with emerge -auvDN system and check the output carefully before
opting to proceed. I'd also make sure that ELOG is correctly set up in
make.conf so you don't miss any important massages.

After updating system, it would be prudent to run revdep-rebuild before
moving onto the rest of world.

emerge -e is pointless, portage is quite capable of determining what
needs to be updated, and reemerging everything just creates noise and
confusion that could make it harder to deal with any potential problems.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.

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