* Re: [gentoo-user] To emerge -e world or not to emerge -e world?
@ 2005-08-30 2:26 99% ` Mark Shields
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From: Mark Shields @ 2005-08-30 2:26 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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Depending on what you have installed, it will take more than 14 hours. Are
you sure they're talking about emerge -e system and not emerge -e world?
On 8/29/05, Matt Randolph <mattr@erols.com> wrote:
>
> I know that upgrading glibc can cause some programs to break if they
> were built against the previous glibc. This happens to me all the time
> and I have gotten in the habit of simply re-emerging any packages that
> misbehave since a glibc upgrade.
>
> Well, I have upgraded both glibc and gcc within the last week or so.
> And I've been contemplating a kernel upgrade too. I looked at genlop
> and it said it will take a mere fourteen hours to re-emerge everything
> with an emerge -e world. I'm tempted to do it, but I'm wary of making
> major changes to a system that currently seems to be working perfectly.
>
> However, I've only tested a handful of packages (the ones that I use
> every day) since the glibc upgrade, and I did have to rebuild a few of
> them. For this reason, I'm guessing that a significant number of the
> packages that I haven't tested are actually broken too. So when I say
> my system seems to be working perfectly, I think that only applies to
> the packages that I interact with daily and probably not to some of the
> ones that I don't.
>
> When does it make sense to re-emerge everything? I've heard some people
> say never but that others do it perhaps monthly or even more often.
>
> Is there a (significant) risk that something will go wrong? Even
> terribly wrong?
>
> Is it possible that some important programs aren't working right now due
> to having been built against an older glibc, and that I'm simply
> oblivious to the fact that they aren't working? I'm worried
> specifically about system programs that I don't usually have reason to
> interact with, yet may be vitally important to the security and
> stability of my system.
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