Re: [gentoo-user] Advice needed: downgrade from ~86 to 86?
On Monday 09 June 2003 22:13, Andy Arbon wrote: > Hello, > > I'm starting to feel that life in the ~86 lane is a little too fast for > me at the moment.. I don't have much time due to work and I'd quite like > to have a slightly more reliable system than Gentoo's testing release > gives me. > > If I change ~86 to 86 in make.conf and do an emerge -u world, will this > safely roll my machine back to the stable branch? Has anyone done this, > and are there any reasons it shouldn't work? > In light of the other replies, I think the smartest approach is to not recompile. Recompilation is dangerous because of library dependencies. The safest approach is to set your keywords to x86 and be careful not to downgrade things unless they are broken. This especiallly holds for libraries. Paul ps. You could even just leave the machine alone for a while without updating. That should guarantee stability. -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice needed: downgrade from ~86 to 86?
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:13:36PM +0100, Andy Arbon wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hello, > > I'm starting to feel that life in the ~86 lane is a little too fast for > me at the moment.. I don't have much time due to work and I'd quite like > to have a slightly more reliable system than Gentoo's testing release > gives me. > > If I change ~86 to 86 in make.conf and do an emerge -u world, will this > safely roll my machine back to the stable branch? Has anyone done this, > and are there any reasons it shouldn't work? I have toasted my glibc and you may too, is raised as bug 22017. Peace Jim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice needed: downgrade from ~86 to 86?
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 22:37:12 +0200 Christian Aust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mo, 2003-06-09 um 22.13 schrieb Andy Arbon: > > If I change ~86 to 86 in make.conf and do an emerge -u world, will this > > safely roll my machine back to the stable branch? Has anyone done this, > > and are there any reasons it shouldn't work? > > Hi Andy, > > I've done that, using "emerge -e world" which eventually recompiled > everything. It took forever... If compilation failes at some point, you > can restart it using "emerge --resume". Have fun, Beware emerge -e! It failed on me and I couldn't re-run emerge because the libraries required to run python (which emerge needs) were missing! I ended up installing from scratch.. which is what I was going for anyway, but it would have been nice to automate the process. Just a warning. KIRT -- Perception != Reality http://3jane.homelinux.org/~kirtis/index.htm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] Advice needed: downgrade from ~86 to 86?
>so would I, have never tried though, and I guess that some >thing could've been >compiled against libraries that would be downgraded... hmmm...the libraries are a good point. I don't know nearly enough to say that he'd have no problem. I've only used a few specific packages not marked as tested/stable. -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice needed: downgrade from ~86 to 86?
On Monday 09 June 2003 21:58, Rex Young wrote: > >Am Mo, 2003-06-09 um 22.13 schrieb Andy Arbon: > >> If I change ~86 to 86 in make.conf and do an emerge -u > > > >world, will this > > > >> safely roll my machine back to the stable branch? Has anyone > > > >done this, > > > >> and are there any reasons it shouldn't work? > > > >Hi Andy, > > > >I've done that, using "emerge -e world" which eventually recompiled > >everything. It took forever... If compilation failes at some point, you > >can restart it using "emerge --resume". Have fun, > > > >- Christian > > Is "emerge -e world" really necessary? I would think that "emerge -u > world" would downgrade the packages which should be. > so would I, have never tried though, and I guess that some thing could've been compiled against libraries that would be downgraded... -- Tom Wesley Please encrypt personal replies if possible. pgp0.pgp Description: signature
RE: [gentoo-user] Advice needed: downgrade from ~86 to 86?
>Am Mo, 2003-06-09 um 22.13 schrieb Andy Arbon: >> If I change ~86 to 86 in make.conf and do an emerge -u >world, will this >> safely roll my machine back to the stable branch? Has anyone >done this, >> and are there any reasons it shouldn't work? > >Hi Andy, > >I've done that, using "emerge -e world" which eventually recompiled >everything. It took forever... If compilation failes at some point, you >can restart it using "emerge --resume". Have fun, > >- Christian Is "emerge -e world" really necessary? I would think that "emerge -u world" would downgrade the packages which should be. -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice needed: downgrade from ~86 to 86?
Am Mo, 2003-06-09 um 22.13 schrieb Andy Arbon: > If I change ~86 to 86 in make.conf and do an emerge -u world, will this > safely roll my machine back to the stable branch? Has anyone done this, > and are there any reasons it shouldn't work? Hi Andy, I've done that, using "emerge -e world" which eventually recompiled everything. It took forever... If compilation failes at some point, you can restart it using "emerge --resume". Have fun, - Christian -- Christian Aust mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 84500990 - Yahoo!: datenimperator - MSN: datenimperator GPG: 3C89AD72 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
