On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I was curious, what's the results of the openrc update for people that >>> have >>> done theirs? Is it pretty simple and "just works" or are there issues? >>> I'm >>> mostly interested in x86 and amd64 since that is what I have. Just a >>> simple >>> works here and I'm X86 or amd64 would be nice. List issues if you had >>> any. >>> >>> Thanks for the feedback. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >> >> Hi Dale, >> I've now done 5 stable machines - 4 hardware and 1 VM. I haven't >> had any significant problems on any of them. The update takes well >> less that 30 minutes and, for me anyway, has been relatively pain free >> compared to other historic Gentoo upgrades. >> >> Cheers, >> Mark >> >> > > Yep. I agree. Of all the things that have caused problems in the past, > this was a doozy. It had the potential to really bork a system. It appears > to have been a very easy one. I don't think anyone had a REALLY big problem > with this upgrade. The devs made sure all the ducks was in line on this > one. Yeppie for that. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
I remember expat and e2fsprogs breaking spectacularly with no warning whatsoever back when.... That was fun. This update is a complete opposite from those nightmares. James Wall
