From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCvRq-00017p-PQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:19:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EDC0E09A1; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:19:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3029E0997 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:19:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D102E08C7 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:19:14 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:19:10 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update After A Year Message-ID: <20080110111910.78309563@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200801101257.57487.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <200801101257.57487.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0cvs34 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/Vebm_YiwFBjEj2PTe4VKFB9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 325e0e96-ed6a-4576-afca-dd484ee7ab81 X-Archives-Hash: f1c29377cf5340d1a771a16b473055ce --Sig_/Vebm_YiwFBjEj2PTe4VKFB9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > isn't always so simple. I can think of a few updates in the last while=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. --Sig_/Vebm_YiwFBjEj2PTe4VKFB9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkeF/zEACgkQum4al0N1GQOhtACcD4WFFfgs6WOANL3lfmN7UQ3V edIAn3x9CBr+SgmM+EfWpOfwQuFabFCB =7ldU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Vebm_YiwFBjEj2PTe4VKFB9-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list