On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:59:07 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> 1) I don't see any mention of hald & dbus in the upgrade guide. I >> currently have them turned on. Are they still necessary? I know hald >> is going away one of these days. Is it too early for me to dump it. >> Possibly dump hald before the upgrade, make sure everything is >> consistent, and then do the ~amd64 work? > > Don't try to second guess what the system needs, just upgrade and do a > --depclean. #~Portage will let you know if anything is no longer needed. > You'll probably find depclean wants to remove a few things, but hal won't > be one of them.
OK. > >> 2) Any problem if I do emerge -DuN @system and then make the changes >> in the upgrade guide followed by @world? I've turned of xdm. I don't >> have a UPS on this system yet so @system would shrink the window of a >> power outage causing me problems. (It's pouring rain here today. It >> will likely happen no matter what) ;-) > > Doing system first makes good sense. Then you can update your config > files, follow the openrc update etc and then reboot. The world part of > the update will take quite a while, especially if you use KDE or GNOME. > <hehe> Less than most PC. It's an i7-980x with 24GB of RAM with RAID1. My first really nice machine in years. Thanks! Cheers, Mark > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. >
