[gentoo-user] Re: gcc 4.7.3 --> 4.8.3

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Peter Humphrey <peter <at> prh.myzen.co.uk> writes:


> > You should be able to just switch to 4.8 without rebuilding anything.
> > That's what I did. Of course it can't hurt to rebuild everything, but
> > you can schedule that for later (like an overnight rebuild of  <at> world
> > with --keep-going). It's not critical to do it immediately.

That's exactly what I did, more or less. All seems fine.

> I'd have thought you needed to emerge -e world if you really want to be 
> protected.

Yea, maybe. I read the man page on emptytree. I get it actually replaces
by a "reinstall".   Does this do more than if I just reboot after

emerge @system @world and then reboot?  

I'd be curious to know exactly what reinstall does that is not covered
by just starting up a given code again? 

Is it that it forces a reinstall and stop/starts the binary without
rebooting?   

Rebooting catches *everything* even better than --emptytree ?


James