On Friday 20 Jan 2012 23:53:32 Philip Webb wrote: > 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.
Only to add use -1 instead of -u if you do not want these packages in your world file. -- Regards, Mick
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