On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 05:15:18 +0100 yac <y...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 11:02:31 +0200 > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > Afaik there is no official way to update gentoo, is there? > > > > It's always been "emerge -avuND world" > [snip] > > Is this documented annywhere? I have a hard time finding it. I can see > it mentioned eg. in man emerge in -c option but that's not good > enough.
Yeah, we do... http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap3_sect5 So, we're not really trying to solve a problem here; yet we can improve the situation so people don't have to manually retype the same chain of commands everytime or rewrite their own shell alias or function. > Even if it is documented, I think it would be very helpfull to have > such a way implemented as "kind of option" to emerge like `emerge > --standard-ugrade` that would just alias to -uaNDv or possibly > leverage sets like `emerge @upgrade` Yeah, I think everyone has implemented their own kind of alternative: eupdate() { emerge -uDN @system @world dispatch-conf etc-update emerge -uDN @system @world emerge -c && ( eclean-dist -d eclean-pkg -d emerge @preserved-rebuild ) } Others have worked together and put it into a handy tool: http://weaver.gentooexperimental.org/update.html It would indeed be nice to join efforts and have something that does to updating what genkernel does to kernels, then get that into the Portage tree and suggest it as an alternative to doing it manually. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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