On 16 September 2014 17:02:43 CEST, Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 09/16/14 14:18, James wrote:
>>Joseph <syscon780 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> After recent emerge I get few blockers, that I don't know what to do
>>> with it My box has not been updated for 3-months :-/
>>
>>Joseph,
>>
>>The problems with  perl updates are not new. It was discussed on this
>>list quite a bit the last few months. If your update cycle is more
>than
>>a few weeks, you are going to miss the relevant discussions on
>gentoo-user
>>that solve most of your issues; so maybe update your system
>weekly_ish?
>>(and browse gentoo-user).
>>
>>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-lang/python:3.1".
>>
>>" eselect  python list "
>>
>>will show your current active version of python. Most all (stable)
>systems
>>have a version 2 (2.7) and version 3 (3.3) installed. I'm not
>>sure why your system did not upgrade 3.1 to 3.3, during the course
>>of routine upgrades. Also run:
>>
>>"python-updater"
>>
>>after compiling new or removing old version of
>>python. python is system *critical* so be cautious when performing
>>install/removal admin tasks on python.
>>
>>
>>
>>hth,
>>James
>
>Good suggestion.
>Running:
># eselect python list
># eselect python set (put number for python:3.3)
># emerge -C dev-lang/python:3.1
># python updater
>
>solved all the problems.
>I was at python:3.3 but for some reason or another (mostly my fault) I
>did not unmerged python:3.1
>
>When it comes to upgrading be-weekly maybe but from my experience, when
>I was doing it more often, occasionally, I ended up with a broken
>system that was caused by new 
>packages.
>I have 4-boxes at home and two boxes at a remote location.  So the
>boxes at home get upgraded first, I wait a week, just to make sure
>every program works and 
>then I upgrade one box on a remote location, wait one week again and
>upgrade the second box (the backup) in the remote location.
>So doing it even every second week would be too often for this routine.
> 
>The boxes are "rsync" to one local box.

I am starting to wonder.
How exactly do you upgrade the other machines? 
Copying the entire filesystem?

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