From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FsYsN-0004gu-5o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:34:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5K5WkJD018329; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:32:46 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5K5QmZL032739 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:26:48 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j40so1060364ugd for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:26:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KI+fGVjArB43TblGl20WEfrw3VX4GeJsjuDV9kulgGz2reoQfUdCGjeS7lFQChnJxsB4LkBv/SQLEPLNbHlmpCtrKbLZ3W0aSlfnkQjHPZ6zLw/uAgKJArGMtu4GWsos3WeBkZXzRaoCVS4mov5pSsYPBMoRarOPB8FMk5H4wtQ= Received: by 10.78.47.15 with SMTP id u15mr2506950huu; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.118.17 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9b1675090606192226j1d34f251i277df3fe948a282f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:26:48 -0600 From: "Trenton Adams" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn In-Reply-To: <200606192352.10179.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <9b1675090606190058o68552c60ge214d179522cccd5@mail.gmail.com> <200606191213.53725.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <9b1675090606191315j2606ffebm95c23ff1b423cf5f@mail.gmail.com> <200606192352.10179.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k5K5QmZL032739 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k5K5WkJU018329 X-Archives-Salt: af8884f7-9a06-4562-8168-88a979eb5805 X-Archives-Hash: 23206f4edf3c173075403b011201b387 Yeah, that's what I used to revert to the old openldap. Perhaps that is enough. Hmmm. On 6/19/06, Bo =D8rsted Andresen wrote: > On Monday 19 June 2006 22:15, Trenton Adams wrote: > > For example, with openldap, you're supposed to slapcat before > > upgrading, and slapadd after upgrading, or you could have database > > problems. I did not know this. So when I went from 2.2-2.3, I had > > problems. But, I didn't have time to get it working, as I needed it > > up and running NOW. So, I reverted to the old package by masking the > > new one, and then went to find out why it occurred after the fact. > > This is one simple example of potential problems. But something on a > > wider scale could occur. > > Did you have a look at FEATURES=3Dbuildpkg? Look at man 5 make.conf. Wh= ile it > takes up a couple of GB it allows you to downgrade to a previously inst= alled > version without needing to compile it again. > > -- > Bo Andresen > > > --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list