On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:45:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Just my 2 cents but I've found with Gentoo that you can really be
almost 'too up to date'. What I mean by this is that many packages
seems to go through a lot of very small incremental updates. - package
-0.4.2_rc1 becomes rc2 becomes
In my experience, you may get away with this regime for a short time on
an almost new system, but it will almost invariably break an older
system (due to emerge depclean)
The safest/most reasonable order is
emerge sync
glsa-check -l|grep \[N
glsa-check -f AnyPackagesReportedAbove
revdep-rebuild
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Good point, Eric. Your point being that unless you stop and restart all
running daemons or other executables, you can't be sure that an updated
library is really being used.
But you can easily check if anything is using an old (replaced)
library.
lsof | grep DEL
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
This is not totally true, default useflag changes because
emerge --sync update profiles or because you 've installed a
particular package.
This mean that after an emerge --sync sometimes run
emerge --update --deep --newuse world
is needed *twice* not only one time
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
Dave Nebinger wrote:
Reboots only come in if I build a new kernel. And it is often times
easier
to manually restart the services that have been updated rather than
rebooting the box.
I also suggest rebooting after major library updates to make sure
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