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* Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade: what's safest option?
  @ 2006-08-12 13:31 99% ` Dale
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From: Dale @ 2006-08-12 13:31 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

b.n. wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm finally on summer break and I can take the time for ye olde GCC
> 3.3-->3.4 infamous transition.
>
> I have a couple of questions:
> - Is it safe to upgrade with a full desktop
> (Xorg+Xfce+Thunderbird+Firefox...) system running, or will I get
> everything crashing on me?
> - If not, is it safe to upgrade using Knoppix and doing the upgrade in a
> chroot? are there side effects?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> M.
>   

I had mine running the whole time as normal.  I even kept folding
running.  It didn't seem to matter.  Since I hate reboots, I just went
to single user then back up again.

May want to wait for some more thoughts though.

Dale

:-)
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