120120 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:37:06 -0800, Grant wrote: >> I have an old Gentoo system that hasn't been updated or used at all >> in at least 2 years. It's remote but I have SSH access. > Take small steps. emerge -pv @system first > and be prepared to emerge packages a few at a time.
That's always the best way to update a Gentoo system. I've never done a simple 'emerge -??? world' & hoped for the best & have never run off the rails since first installing Gentoo 2003. 'emerge -Dup world' lists all the pkgs Portage wants to update & shows the order in which it plans to tackle them : you can use that to do a few pkgs at a time & as you do them, check the output, warnings etc. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
