[gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-12-14, antlists wrote: > What I would do is find out whatever -march fits the oldest chip, and > then set that for all the machines. Especially if, as you say, they're > all AMD the chances are the newer chips will be a superset of the old, FWIW, that's not always the case.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-14 Thread antlists
On 14/12/2020 12:55, n952162 wrote: On 12/14/20 11:17 AM, Wols Lists wrote: On 14/12/20 08:51, Dale wrote: If you are able, maybe you can compile the bigger packages on a faster system?  If it is a option, it may help. If I have multiple similar machines, I create a shared a shared local

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-14 Thread Michael
On Monday, 14 December 2020 12:55:33 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 12/14/20 11:17 AM, Wols Lists wrote: > > On 14/12/20 08:51, Dale wrote: > >> If you are able, maybe you can compile the bigger packages on a faster > >> system? If it is a option, it may help. > > > > If I have multiple similar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-14 Thread n952162
On 12/14/20 11:17 AM, Wols Lists wrote: On 14/12/20 08:51, Dale wrote: If you are able, maybe you can compile the bigger packages on a faster system? If it is a option, it may help. If I have multiple similar machines, I create a shared a shared local repository. Then I run emerge with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-14 Thread Wols Lists
On 14/12/20 08:51, Dale wrote: > If you are able, maybe you can compile the bigger packages on a faster > system? If it is a option, it may help. If I have multiple similar machines, I create a shared a shared local repository. Then I run emerge with the settings (can't remember what they are)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-14 Thread Dale
n952162 wrote: > > On 12/14/20 4:54 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2020-12-13, n952162 wrote: >>> On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Nearly 2 months, quite a long time in Gentoo update terms. >>> Okay, is the solution then to re-install? >> That's _a_ solution, and might be less work.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 07:54:55 +0100, n952162 wrote: > One thing about frequent updating...  I thought I was following the > advice here by developing a procedure to update at the start of every > month.  When I did that, llvm, rust, clang, firefox, and thunderbird > would rebuild every time, for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
On 12/14/20 4:54 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2020-12-13, n952162 wrote: On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Nearly 2 months, quite a long time in Gentoo update terms. Okay, is the solution then to re-install? That's _a_ solution, and might be less work. But, if you're not going to

[gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-12-13, n952162 wrote: > On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> Nearly 2 months, quite a long time in Gentoo update terms. > > Okay, is the solution then to re-install? That's _a_ solution, and might be less work. But, if you're not going to update more regularly, you're

[gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-12-13, Dale wrote: > I been using Gentoo for a good long while and most of the time, I still > can't understand what it spits out onto my screen. I know what you mean. I've been running Gentoo on mutliple machines for 20 years now, and I'm still baffled by much of what "emerge" spews.