From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M4FSB-0007cc-8d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:29:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B02AE03D9; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:29:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.145]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC480E03D9 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 26so169861eyw.10 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 07:29:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=PpnXSqV3QVUQ8caIhssYODuy8GS5XR7qD7levE4Cm14=; b=JAl1LhWAcCIE/matgHfF6ctUNvt3E8V8aeD1raERWt0I/mZKMIDPS4o7BSN9ifC9a6 Kv4tKM2DXte/I7G64cVxwJIXYPLtJAC5WztRISVtyqNNu3atlh3rPviV/QXdWuhaqdBF 3JnzEbhz6/kN0i7SMFtCN7fqS2EbVo4D8WhAs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=ocmXkvUENgqN4yjbR1UB+UWRWAZNQ3MNQ/t/sRcSIGW1/7oz9YLk+Jj9dndCh400fV QmLrhhrPldw7NVWnhcpBCQdSV6ZdtLvfzYmZEqu+R/dY8wZ8DB+e9b+oFcEgVJ6N8HNe odX7oyUJ645S+/s4L1ZlFjLGDuYGMLL8dBw08= Received: by 10.210.82.13 with SMTP id f13mr922448ebb.68.1242224941159; Wed, 13 May 2009 07:29:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-19-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm63737eya.59.2009.05.13.07.28.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 13 May 2009 07:29:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 16:27:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <1430318F-36A1-4095-B8DE-014A1915AC67@gmail.com> <200905131217.11212.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <73326D2F-33AC-4BC8-9118-4782D4D700BB@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <73326D2F-33AC-4BC8-9118-4782D4D700BB@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905131627.25975.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e0b27c48-b03f-4d27-9ebb-6b30ba5a756d X-Archives-Hash: 87328d98273a0413edd108c4576fb2a5 On Wednesday 13 May 2009 16:16:10 Stroller wrote: > In my case, reinstallation would be a huge pain. I would be massively > worrying about which services on the machine I need to configure > again, and whether everything I needed had been backed up properly. I > have forgotten the original procedures I followed setting up many of > these services, and it could easily take a week to set the machine up > from scratch. But whether you reinstall (backing up and replacing old configs then runnign diff of course) or incrementally upgrade, and $SERVICE breaks, either way you equally do not know about it till $USER complains. It's just that I remember all too well what it took to get through those many various blockers. More often than not I was once of the first to run into them - I sync and update daily - but I'd hate to do it all again all in one go, especially when all my buddies here have forgotten the procedure. Horses for courses I guess. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com