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 1KoiLD-0001NN-Oy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:33:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6261E0591; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:33:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rabble.robbieab.com (rabble.robbieab.com [213.79.38.74]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70152E0591 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:33:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.65] (helo=pheonix) by rabble.robbieab.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KoiL9-0006di-Ub for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:33:19 +0100 Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:33:14 +0100 From: Robert Bridge To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] expat... once again Message-ID: <20081011183314.016d8ad6@pheonix> In-Reply-To: <200810111919.52813.wonko@wonkology.org> References: <200810111919.52813.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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_/+JjxuHQNjYzGsLPjVXG=upA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: fc6365fc-7861-42eb-9302-0397d5cad048 X-Archives-Hash: a2e7941dd20766eaf6836e95fc6e7027 --Sig_/+JjxuHQNjYzGsLPjVXG=upA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:19:48 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! >=20 > 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.=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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?. >=20 > Wonko >=20 Stupid idea, but would the current ~ portage now make the whole upgrade a lot easier with FEATURES=3D"preserve-libs" ? --Sig_/+JjxuHQNjYzGsLPjVXG=upA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjw414ACgkQZr0UhZgPVmz7/wCguuJT1IL7sxkkCxHzRPQOdNcc t98AoI2LE7x4oPFrAYpoTLWEtJCAXYY7 =YGqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/+JjxuHQNjYzGsLPjVXG=upA--