On 08/04/2015 11:30 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > Grant Edwards composed on 2015-08-04 17:20 (UTC): > >> and faster. A fresh install will take a couple hours. An upgrade will >> take somewhere between a couple days and a couple weeks. > > Seriously, more than a day? >
Oh sure, it's possible. In late 2013 I upgraded some old installs installed in 2007/2008. They were left stagnant for a long time due to some really finicky software (tried an upgrade and it broke so many things on that software it wasn't funny.) However, this process took almost a week to iron the bugs out. Portage had a bit of a fit and refused to do anything. There were so many changes with core things (like udev, python, perl, and numerous others) that it just crapped out. I found that I had to do it in little pieces at a time and portage got in my way constantly. I wish there was a setting to just forcibly compile a package and then manually deal with breakage afterward with something like revdep-rebuild, rather than trying to solve problems it can't deal with beforehand. It would have been a lot easier. So after upgrading some core items which took several hours of figuring out what to remove, what to upgrade, and what to switch to (in some cases) then I could install a new kernel and boot, after that I still had portage getting in the way and wound up installing packages manually instead of emerging world. I would've just started fresh if the software package I was using actually had an installer that worked. I had to do a lot of tricks to get it installed initially and didn't want to repeat that process. Dan
