Howdy,
Finally completed the gcc 3.4.4 upgrade and thought I'd pass along a few
hard learned lessons.
I run a mostly stable system updated almost daily. The sync is
ran as part of cron.daily.
Lesson #1, turn off cron portage scripts prior to multi-day emerge.
Got bit by some Sun java package updates needing to be downloaded.
I also use rsnapshot to keep some current backups around.
Lesson #2, turn off rsnapshot prior to rebuilding the world. Can
you say good bye to disk space? Yes, 36GB root down to 0.
Lesson #3, Konqueror's "File Size View" is excellent. I wasted
hours trying to figure out why I was running out of disk space until
I discovered the File Size View which pointed the problem right
at rsnapshot.
Lesson #4, "emerge --skipfirst --resume" is GREAT. I kept a list of
the three non-java packages that failed. After completing
emerge -e world, I did a emerge sync, low and behold, those three
packages had updates and then compiled successfully.
The only side-effect I have noticed is that KDE 3.4 system sounds
now work... :-)
Have fun,
Roy
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