Done it.. :) Since I don't do automatic updates, I let one of my 486's get pretty far behind.. over 6-9 months as a matter of fact.. I did a emerge sync, emerge -udp system.. Did the gcc and glibc on their own to make sure they worked, and just kept on working the list until it was gone, then did world.. Took almost 2-3 weeks to get it up to date.. And yes, emerge sync was running once a week..
I remember because portage was so far behind it came up 3 times in my list.. now, if someone did a emerge -ud world?? That's asking for trouble.. I did a lot of manual stuff in between packages.. mostly config stuff, and make.conf changed too.. it was long and boring.. -----Original Message----- From: Spider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 9:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerrge world begin quote On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:48:38 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To sum up, if you want absolutely no breakage then Dhruba, Collins and > Spider have the right ideas - especially Collins with his "wait two > weeks" policy. Actually Spider broke his test box recently and did it > all by himself - but that was a hard drive failure! If you can accept > a small amount of breakage and have the time and intellect to find the > solutions, then automatic updating is not such a bad thing. Yep, i'd personally advice against doing nightly updates without overseeing things. (I never do emerge -u world even, ever. i do each pack or in groups. ) What could be doable on a nightly basis (but I don't do it for other reasons) emerge sync emerge -fu world since that might reduce waitingtimes a bit in the system when you update. also, for stability.. I'd adivce -against- leaving a system untouched for too long. When you get a big queue of updates theres a situation that hasn't been tested properly. (anyone want to donate 40 or 50 machines that we can put someplace and try 3 months delayed deployment on? That would be necessary... and even then it wouldn't be proper since we can't have all the software running then.) //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list