On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:27:53 +0200 econti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, this is my first post on the list. > > Well, I'm running a 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 2006.0 on a AMD64 machine. > > Now I'd like to make a world upgrade. I know that I should run the > following commands: > > emerge --sync > emerge --update --deep --newuse world > emerge --depclean > revdep-rebuild > > A little question: how long does it take to complete the upgrade? > (sure, it depends on the installed software, but please give me an > approximation) > It's impossible, since it doesn't only depends on the installed software. It also depends on many other factors:
1.- the time when you did the last update 2.- the number of packages that has updates, which is not always related to the number of packages you have installed, but to _what_ packages do you have installed. Some packages doesn't get updates too frequently, while others change a lot. 3.- external factors, like overlays It just depends on _what_ needs to be updated. I can give you a few hints, though. Most packages can compile in a reasonable amount of time. Some specific packages will take longer to compile. You will learn to identify them with the time. For example, openoffice if probably the largest, and can take from several hours up to days, depending on your hardware. Some kde packages are big, like kmail. Qt or Gtk as intermediate things. Glibc and gcc can take a lot of time, as xorg-server, for example. Whe you are doing the update, you have to know a few things. On first place, use this instead of your command above: merge --update --deep --newuse --verbose --ask world This will present you with a list of the packages that will be updated, that way, you know how many packages are going to be updated, but, more important, you will know _what_ packages will be merged. The depclean and revdep steps shouldn't be too time consuming on a sane system. So, if you use them regularly, those steps will not rob much of your time. The sync step depends on your connection speed and the time since your last sync. It can take a few minutes on a fast connection if your tree is up to date. But it can take a day on a 56k modem if you tree is empty or way too outdated. -- Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list