On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:09:38 +0100, Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 09 January 2005 07:40, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Having carefully backed up my whole root partition, I just embarked > > on the huge emerge that had built up in just the few days around the > > new years. I was worried about Xorg, of course -- it was going to be > > a major pain if that didn't work. In the event, everything seems > > fine, but there were some oddities, in my opinion. It also seemed to > > replace much of KDE and a bunch of other things too. 38 steps. > > > > The oddities: > > > > For one thing, emerge first emerged xorg 6.8.0-r3, then downgraded it > > to xorg 6.7.0-r3, all in the same batch. Anyone know why it does > > this? I'm running on 6.70 right now, with no noticeable difference > > from the earlier XFree, so I'm not complaining. It just seems weird. > > Also very time-consuming. > > If you sync your system once in a quarter you can expect strange > behavior ;-) > Seriously: it can depend on the fact that the upgrade/update touched > portage and/or profiles.
This is not called for. I held off sync for about 2 weeks. Later you talk about planning large emerges for when you can deal with them. Make up your mind. > > For another, when it was done, and quite aside from the automatic > > trivial config merges, there were 291 config file changes that > > etc-update wanted me to scrutinize. I don't have the attention span > > for that, so I looked at the 9 that I most nearly know what they do. > > The rest I just told it to automerge, and I'm hoping for the best. > > Is it really necessary to have 300 config files changed in a given > > update? There just seems to be something unfriendly about that. > > > > ++ kevin > > I put a "signature" as comment in every /etc/ file I edit, so it is > easier to sort out which config files deserve _more_ attention. I've been doing this for years, long before I ever heard of Gentoo. > IMHO, anyway you should better > - sync your system more often > or > - plan big builds when you have time to look them after. > Again, is 2 weeks often enough for you? If not, your second option doesn't make much sense. > Again IMHO ten minutes saved in a blind etc-update with a -3 or -5 > switch don't worth hours trying to solve "strange issues", and > potentially rock solid system crawling... Tell me how you examine 300 unfamiliar diffs in ten minutes. Ten hours should do it, but I'd have a hard time staying focused. No noticeable problems so far. I think all the -5's related to config files I have never touched, since there are precious few that I ever do. Printing, networking, fstab, ssh, security programs, and X86Config; not much else. > Dispatch-conf may be better suited to your likings, tough... Why? I'm not complaining about etc-update, or at least not aware of it if I am. ++ kevin > Ciao > Francesco -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
