Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 04:48:24PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > What is @preserved-rebuild ?
> 
> It is a portage set, hence the @ prefix, containing packages that need to
> be rebuilt in order to link them against the installed versions of
> libraries.
> 
> > workstation ~ # emerge -a @preserved-rebuild
> > emerge: 'preserved-rebuild' is an empty set
> > emerge: no targets left after set expansion
> 
> So you have nothing that needs rebuilding. Portage will warn you when the
> set it non-empty, telling you to run emerge @preserved-rebuild. There is
> no need to run it at any other time.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Neil Bothwick

This alias is run with coffee every morning on 8 Gentoo installs on this LAN:
alias ud='eix-sync && emerge -aDjNuv @world && dispatch-conf && emerge -a --depclean && revdep-rebuild -i && clear && exit'

So I'd venture to say there never will be such a set (must one create it?).

However, the wife's PC is getting rescued from JFS atm. Having backed up /home
and anything worth saving, booted with SystemRescueCd, and started a fresh
install beginning with changing / and /home to XFS; these configs:

grep PYTHON /etc/portage/make.conf
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"

grep gcc /etc/portage/package.*
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords:sys-devel/gcc:4.6
/etc/portage/package.use:sys-devel/gcc cxx nptl -gtk

grep udev /etc/portage/package.*
/etc/portage/package.mask:>=sys-fs/udev-181
/etc/portage/package.use:sys-fs/udev rule_generator

necessitated "emerge -aejv @world" from what came with the present tarballs.

So as soon as that's done perhaps "emerge -a @preserved-rebuild" will show
such a set?
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