On 08/02/2012 05:26 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:24:06 -0700 >> Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> That means your machine could be 100% testing software. At your skill >>> level I do not think this is a good idea. It works for some but not >>> for others.(me) >>> >>> I'm on my Kindle so more help is hard right now. Consider how to get >>> to stable, if that is even possible. >> Hmmmm, yeaaaaaahhh, I don't think so, he's a newbie >> >> I once switched a host from unstable to stable and I sweated blood >> and bricks to do it. IIRC correctly it involved a whole lot of manual >> package masking, and that took a whole lot of grep sed and awking >> emerge output. >> >> It was horrible. It would have been easier to reinstall. But, being a >> pigheaded Gentooist, I just had to try! >> >> What he could do is switch ACCEPT_KEYWORDS then not do much updates for >> 6 months and let stable catch up to unstable. Not ideal from a security >> update POV, but better than nothing >> >> -- >> Alan McKinnon >> alan.mckin...@gmail.com >> >> > I'd have to agree with you, Alan. I tried switching from unstable to > stable once (and I'm still a newbie, so I was even more of a newb when > I tried) -- I just ended up reinstalling to keep my mind from melting. > This was on a standard Desktop/Gnome system, of course. > Yeah I don't know if I really want to take the time to reset up entire machine again. It is not only my XBMC machine but it is all my network services and routes the internet. I think I like the idea that Alan has, switch the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and not update for a couple of months.
-- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com
