[gentoo-user] expat... once again

[gentoo-user] expat... once again

[Alex Schuster]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] expat... once again

[Robert Bridge]

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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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Re: [gentoo-user] expat... once again

[Alex Schuster]

Robert Bridge writes:

> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:19:48 +0200
>
> Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
[my personal expat upgrade trick]
> Stupid idea, but would the current ~ portage now make the whole upgrade
> a lot easier with FEATURES="preserve-libs" ?

Oh. Yes. The new portage. Sorry, I didn't think about that, even though I 
heard about it. Yeah, that should make things a lot easier. Thanks for 
the hint, Robert!

	Alex