From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B19B138825 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:51:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81CC7E0AA4; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:51:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f180.google.com (mail-qc0-f180.google.com [209.85.216.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5CF7FE0A62 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f180.google.com with SMTP id o8so7248449qcw.11 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:51:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=h5tE1Wcj2X/ijx94ASCErdwr9B2JLQ3Zj+17Cxy0bw0=; b=NWsDnqGxT6aLOC8Kf5aPYAMsZUAsvyqyI/MB+uw0/TMzM57sCe0Jdb8dGaF3se7FTy nU5DF+mBuicVHtgKfO7c6WGiqx/Q8oDkNEMpzMTr2C6qtZKBdTzLZ4WALqYPBfR6m314 JRLjiacpYHRoHR6SNu88DVRgkyl2k5qTjsEtnAflcGmTR6SNfk10MrqmhDkxj5/nAxIr sRb1i6YgSCiY0/LXn+P9jwChzfl1TZ0iYs6dkxwgtSLncn5iD68PcIsErDPhHZscK5cW z4TD3PB1bKCfBslvXWJ15KN3tm2zJZPNO/zks6VZzRKKvh/Fh+PRydj0bi9JEjkd5hss b/Mw== X-Received: by 10.140.42.135 with SMTP id c7mr47869369qga.7.1415699484515; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:51:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-148-49.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.148.49]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id p10sm13471505qab.39.2014.11.11.01.51.23 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:51:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5461DC1A.80503@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:51:22 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 SeaMonkey/2.30 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: gcc 4.7.3 --> 4.8.3 References: <9194407.LW02KBNQ1l@wstn> <20141110222302.6adfe4ef@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20141110222302.6adfe4ef@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 40ecf397-4af8-40cb-ae0e-0fb8c03ad037 X-Archives-Hash: fd2b3eadd700cc2a2cac180ab4a9ceab Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:52:09 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: > >>> I'd have thought you needed to emerge -e world if you really want to >>> be protected. >> Yea, maybe. I read the man page on emptytree. I get it actually replaces >> by a "reinstall". Does this do more than if I just reboot after >> >> emerge @system @world and then reboot? >> >> I'd be curious to know exactly what reinstall does that is not >> covered by just starting up a given code again? >> >> Is it that it forces a reinstall and stop/starts the binary without >> rebooting? >> >> Rebooting catches *everything* even better than --emptytree ? > --emptytree has nothing to do with rebooting. It simply forces emerge to > rebuild everything in @world and their dependencies. Once you have done > that, you will have daemons still running the old code, which you could > fix with a reboot, or you could run checkrestart and restart only the > affected programs. > > After an emerge -e @world, a reboot is probably best, another reason to > avoid the unnecessary step of emerge -e @world in the first place. > > After I do a major upgrade or --emptytree, I switch to boot runlevel, check with checkrestart and restart whatever it reports needs it. Generally, switching to boot runlevel catches most everything. Yea, rebooting may be faster but I hate rebooting all the time. :/ Dale :-) :-)