From: Robert Bridge <robert@robbieab.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] expat... once again
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:33:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081011183314.016d8ad6@pheonix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810111919.52813.wonko@wonkology.org>
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:19:48 +0200
Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Yes, there are still gentoo machines out there running libexpat-1,
> and I am upgrading one now. I survived several of those upgrades yet,
> but those were PCs I had better access to, and where a huge
> revdep-rebuild was no big problem.
>
> But this machine here is slow, and I do not have powerful distcc
> hosts for it. And it is powered off in the night. But it should come
> up back and be able to be used.
>
> Couldn't I just save /usr/lib/libexpat.* before upgrading libexpat,
> start revdep-rebuild, and put the old libraries back, so all
> applications stil have their libraries until revdep-rebuild has
> finished?.
>
> Wonko
>
Stupid idea, but would the current ~ portage now make the whole upgrade
a lot easier with FEATURES="preserve-libs" ?
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2008-10-11 17:19 [gentoo-user] expat... once again Alex Schuster
2008-10-11 17:33 ` Robert Bridge [this message]
2008-10-11 17:54 ` Alex Schuster
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