Op woensdag 7 december 2016 13:57:04 schreef Alan Grimes: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > So why are you running it? > > Do I really need to answer that? > I want my system upgraded and the gentle approach isn't working -> try > the rough approach. > Hello Alan,
It's against my better judgement, but here goes. Mind you, I'm not even going to attempt to solve your emerge problems, but hopefully this will help you nevertheless. As far as I can determine everybody who uses Gentoo but you does not use your script or anything even remotely like it. As far as I can determine every now and then someone other than you has a merge issue, posts to the list and either gets their issue resolved or, rarely, has run into a legitimate issue and needs to patch, or wait for a bug to get fixed. As far as I can determine you update your system both very rarely, and using a method, if it deserves the name, that defies description and consistently runs into issues. These observations lead me to the following hypothesis: your frequency and way of upgrading are actually the *cause* of your problems. Until proven wrong, I'll stick to my hypothesis and offer you these pieces of advice: 1. update more frequently 2. let portage do what is was designed to do 3. read (and by read I do in fact actually mean try to understand) and follow the veritable heap of advice that was already supplied by the generous souls on this list 4. rename your script to jackass.sh and let that refer to anybody who even thinks about running it I'll bet you that: 1. your updates will go smoother, and 2. you´ll find it easier to get help here if for whatever reason you still run into issues. Best regards and good luck with your update, Paul P.S. I sync almost daily and update if there are no big packages that would interfere with whatever I'm doing. Today's update was done while I was writing this. Once again, no issues. Just one 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' left and I'm done. And I didn't even need to figure that out myself, as portage is telling me. So I can focus on other things, although in this case, only time will tell how useful I spent my time.
