Re: [gentoo-user] What is recommended behavior for complete updating of an old system ?

2005-11-14 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Hi Assembling a guide of recommended update usage seems like a good idea. Unfortunately I don't have much time (or much knowledge) on the matter, and submitting the cluster setup as docs and ebuild has higher priority (which doesn't mean I have much time for that either). Do you know if there

Re: [gentoo-user] What is recommended behavior for complete updating of an old system ?

2005-11-13 Thread michael
If ever there was a frequently asked question, it's this, or the general family of what's the best way to do an update in this situation?, like: What is a recommended way to update an old system to minimize the amount of broken ebuilds? What's the best way to do an

Re: [gentoo-user] What is recommended behavior for complete updating of an old system ?

2005-11-12 Thread abhay
On Saturday 12 Nov 2005 8:52 am, Bob Sanders wrote: emerge sync once per week and let it run over the weekend doing updates. About once per year - - emerge sync - ufed and check out the USE flags. Some changes occur and they need a

[gentoo-user] What is recommended behavior for complete updating of an old system ?

2005-11-11 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Hi folks I recently went through the (minor hell) of updating my old workhorse gentoo box. I hadn't touched the system much (apart from open services like ssh) for about 1.5 years due to a series of facts: 1) It just worked so darned nice. 2) My phd endstretch didn't leave much time to computer

Re: [gentoo-user] What is recommended behavior for complete updating of an old system ?

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:46:41 +0100 Jimmy Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Primary: What is a recommended way to update an old system to minimize the amount of broken ebuilds? Is emerge --emptytree world a good idea? Is it better than a clean install? Or is the documentation's way good