-- Eric Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: >> Baselayout was because of some problems which were introduced with >> the recent 1.8.6.2 update. Be very careful with baselayout; you >> _must_ do etc-update before rebooting (going either 1.8.5.8 -> >> 1.8.6.2 or back again), although I don't recall which files are the >> important ones. Details at >> <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15175>. > > I read through the bug, but it seems to be related to hassles of not > etc-updating. I etc-update pretty religiously, and certainly did after > updating baselayout to 1.8.6.2. Also, I run a very vanilla system, > and I almost always choose to overwrite the existing file with the > updated one, so I'm pretty sure my /etc is as up-to-date as it could > be. > > So, would it be safe to ignore the downgrade, and somehow unmask > 1.8.6.2 so it doesn't want to go backwards?
It sounds like you'd be safe either way (unmasking or downgrading). The important thing is to not reboot before doing etc-update. Sounds like you're fine there. > I haven't rebooted the machine in months, so I don't know what would > happen if I did (related to all those boot errors other have gotten). > Now I'm nervous to do so... as a general rule, is it safe to run a > Gentoo system without rebooting after performing World updates, and > in particular, baselayout updates (or other system-critical ones)? > > I guess another way of asking this is under what circumstances is it > recommended to reboot a Gentoo system (particularly related to > emerging?) I'm not really qualified to answer this, but I will say that I've never worried about it and I've never had any problems. I generally prefer not to reboot, so I'll only do it if I need to change hardware, upgrade the kernel, or if I'm having some problem that it seems like rebooting would fix. I haven't yet had the last happen with Gentoo (but then I've only been running it for 8 months or so). I probably rebooted when I upgraded to 1.4, if the docs recommended it. I don't really remember. All the other times I've rebooted (hardware stuff, kernel, etc.) have gone smoothly. In short, I wouldn't stress. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
