Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel
<alec@alectenharmsel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:35:36AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>>
>> > I'd recommend you then just to reinstall.  Remembering my fights with
>> > stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just
>> > reinstalled months earlier than I did.
>>
>> Thanks for the frank suggestions and noted lack unix hero
>> talk... hehe.
>
> I personally think that updating glibc and gcc, then continuing with the
> rest of the system update is the easiest path forward. You won't lose
> your portage config, it will probably be a little bit faster, and it
> requires a lot less manual intervention (running a handful of commands
> vs. following the handbook)..
>

Agree. I probably get update issues of this complexity at least
annually.  I couldn't tell you when I installed my stage3 on this box,
but it was a LONG time ago and I'm constantly cleaning up /etc cruft
from things being moved around.

I would not rush to just reinstall a gentoo box unless you get really
stuck, or this is part of a configuration management workflow (which I
fully encourage - there is something to be said for blowing away your
install and reinstalling every time you do a package update, just to
demonstrate that you're able to do it from a disaster-recovery
standpoint).

-- 
Rich