Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Update - HowTo

2006-12-03 Thread Mick
On Saturday 02 December 2006 19:22, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/2/06, Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next step which I'm afraid of is upgrading to glibc-2.5 Having destroyed (the system) of my machine some years ago by upgrading glibc (on Suse), I know that this is not a

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Update - HowTo

2006-12-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, this is a very general question. Having used LinuxFromScratch for several years, I've switched to Gentoo a few month ago. Im must say I'm quite impressed. Still, for a newcomer like me, there remains one problem. How to upgrade Gentoo? Having tried to upgrade to udev-103 I fell flat on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Update - HowTo

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
Helmut Jarausch wrote: So, the question: Is there a general source of information about warnings, actions to be taking, etc to be followed when upgrading certains critical packages. Generically, no. But User Relations has noted a need, and we are going to start working on something that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Update - HowTo

2006-12-02 Thread Daniel Iliev
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, this is a very general question. Having used LinuxFromScratch for several years, I've switched to Gentoo a few month ago. Im must say I'm quite impressed. Still, for a newcomer like me, there remains one problem. How to upgrade Gentoo? Having tried to upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Update - HowTo

2006-12-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/2/06, Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next step which I'm afraid of is upgrading to glibc-2.5 Having destroyed (the system) of my machine some years ago by upgrading glibc (on Suse), I know that this is not a trivial step. Actually the glibc-2.4 to 2.5 upgrade is pretty