On Sunday 11 February 2007, Pawel K wrote: > Hello > > I would like to install User-Mode Linux. It requires > non-NPTL profile. > Are below steps sufficient to switch to non-NPTL > profile ? > > 1. Remove nptl and nptlonly flags from USE variable in > /etc/make.conf file: > USE="-nptl -nptlonly" > > 2. Which of the following commands should I perform > now? > > emerge --newuse world > or > emerge -e world
You might get away with an 'emerge -uND world", but consider what you are trying to accomplish. You want to update and make a deep change to the most basic library on the system - glibc - and at the same time change the system's threading model. When done, every library that previously used nptl will still want to, but it won't be there. So you will need to do a revdep-rebuild and wait for the humunguous emerge that triggers to complete. All things considered, you might as well just 'emerge -e world' anyway. It's likely to take not much longer and will be a mostly uneventful task that takes about a day or so. -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
