[gentoo-user] upgrading question

[gentoo-user] upgrading question

[James]

Hello,

Ordinarily, I'd just remove the blocking packages and away I'd go
with the 'emerge -uDNv world' command.

However, since glibc(2.4+) , gcc(4.1), xorg-x11 (7.0),
/etc/make.profile  and kde-mono to kde-meta have combined, lately, to whip 
the snot out of me, I thought I'd post and get suggestions and explainations
on how to upgrade, hopefully avoiding the 2006.1 installation media.

Right now everything is working, but the system wants to upgrade about
( 140 ) packages (emerge -uDNvp world | wc -l) = 140


emerge -uDNvp world:
blocks B     ] media-video/nvidia-kernel (is blocking
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774)
[blocks B     ] media-video/nvidia-glx (is blocking
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774)                                           
                            
<ship>

lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]
(rev b2)

x11-base/xorg-x11
     Available versions:  [M]6.8.2-r8 [M]6.9.0-r3 7.0-r1 ~7.1
     Installed:           7.0-r1

and a few key lines form xorg.conf:
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Monitor0"
        VendorName "VIZIO"
        ModelName "VIZIO L32"
        HorizSync 31-70
        VertRefresh 50-85

      DisplaySize 347 195     # display size in mm for DPI autoset
 # width = 1366pix / 100pix/in -> 13.66in * 25.4mm/in -> 347 mm
 # height = 768pix / 100pix/in -> 7.68 in * 25.4mm/in -> 195 mm
 #       Option      "DPI" "100 x 100" # <---this is place

        Mode    "1366x768"      # vfreq 59.815Hz, hfreq 47.553kHz
                DotClock        85.500000
                HTimings        1366 1494 1624 1798
                VTimings        768 770 776 795
                Flags           "-HSync" "+VSync"
        EndMode
EndSection



Here is  what else might be useful info:

from /proc/cpuinfo
model name      : AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+


gcc-config -l
 [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6
 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardened
 [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednopie
 [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednopiessp
 [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednossp
 [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 *
 [7] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened
 [8] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie
 [9] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp
 [10] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednossp
 [11] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1


eix glibc
 Installed:           2.4-r3

l /etc/make.profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Aug 31 13:23 /etc/make.profile ->
../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0


Can I just remove the blocking packages and 'emerge -uDNv world' ???


--just a little gun shy at the moment.... Yes I have a backup
of /etc/ /boot and /home  everything else is replaceable....

suggestions?


James





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[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading question

[james]

James Ausmus <james.ausmus <at> gmail.com> writes:

>
 Ordinarily, I'd just remove the blocking packages and away I'd go
 with the 'emerge -uDNv world' command.

 emerge -uDNvp world:
 blocks B     ] media-video/nvidia-kernel (is blocking
 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774)
 [blocks B     ] media-video/nvidia-glx (is blocking
 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774)
 <snip>
 Can I just remove the blocking packages and 'emerge -uDNv world' ???

> Yep - it's pretty harmless - the proprietary nVidia driver packages
> have been combined into a single ebuild to make things easier.
> If you want to be *really* safe, go to a virtual console
> (CTRL+ALT+F[1-6]), login, stop X (/etc/init.d/xdm stop), unload the
> nvidia module (rmmod nvidia), do the package swap (emerge -aC
> nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx && emerge -a nvidia-drivers), then restart X
> (/etc/init.d/xdm start). Then once X is back up, and everything
> running correctly, do your -uDNv world upgrade.



OK it's underway.... the system is headless right now (in the
server room) so I just opted for a straight upgrade of all....

thanks,

James



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading question

[Ryan Sims]

On 9/20/06, james <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> James Ausmus <james.ausmus <at> gmail.com> writes:
[snip]
>
> OK it's underway.... the system is headless right now (in the
> server room) so I just opted for a straight upgrade of all....
>

This may sound like a stupid question, but why bother with the nvidia
binaries with a headless server?

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