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 1Nkyv6-0001PG-K0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:03:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40A5CE09CA for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E368E08C8 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:34:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so451701fga.10 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:34:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BjtQ7DEHjzYIqi4FrfFSc9qIliKhTey8AqOkiNmoVdA=; b=p+yKrroCOx5SIn4qOewvPkHhzkiG1Qdyb2lnUeO4tWVgWgvZV/v0S/kO1JHL9YIWMf yTmkhwErW28lCkOUjaKSS6lriYsicOskDn3bz5kS6L/ULJL42YRpl2zjZUtTBLp0/6PK yvMz+oD4Q09xv6/+VNPtBVcyN790FkQEIyxCY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tzg18+WXltoaR3uHrAnVoXG2n34/FZxkto4LXIh2X04Gwjj2fu+6d2a7XiZbsRW2mO o9OJTYM+ijBXpG2oLoLxPOXWVP4tkVYPsbRLDkLLMDHWXKUkHCNP/dTS6STZVKTABk5q Exfj9hItBVQkWXHtqtFttrCSnuO280SZgc/wU= Received: by 10.102.17.3 with SMTP id 3mr188548muq.35.1267184087757; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:34:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.2? (cpc2-cmbg14-0-0-cust882.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [213.106.91.115]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i7sm19127395mue.34.2010.02.26.03.34.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:34:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B87A883.3070108@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:54:59 +0100 From: bn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091224) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libtool 2.x upgrade References: <4B87209D.8010704@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2ef47131-d2bb-4cde-a6b9-9fa0d41cd2fb X-Archives-Hash: 73a09a5e6420f1bf601293a8a0b0afcf Nikos Chantziaras ha scritto: > On 02/26/2010 03:15 AM, bn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a stable x86 system that requires still a bit of updating, among >> those libtool and gcc. Since I need the system to be usable *now* for >> work reasons, I don't feel like updating gcc and rebuilding it all with >> an emerge -e system / emerge -e world, but more and more packages want >> to upgrade to libtool 2.x >> >> Is it safe to upgrade libtool without (1)rebuilding gcc too and >> (2)rebuilding system/world? > > I don't know, but for this type of scenario you are better off building > binary packages of everything that need to be updated without actually > installing any of it on the machine. At the end, when all binaries have > been created by portage, you can install them in one go at a convenient > point. > > Look up the "--buildpkgonly" option of emerge for this. Looks like an excellent suggestion, I didn't think of that. Thanks! Anyway, if someone else knows the answer to the libtool question, I'd be happy, if only for learning purposes :) m.