When it comes to Gentoo's emerge causing boot problems, this is normally caused by the user (I've been there... DOH!).
When you emerge something like fstab, or grub, or anything else that can affect booting, the CURRENT config files are NOT overwritten. You need to use a tool like "etc-update" to replace/merge/leave your config files. If you do like I did once (and only once - learned the first time), and simply say to update all your config files, then yes you will have problems. If however you check each one individually, and determine which ones are best left alone, and which ones can be simply replaced (i.e. the ones you've never touched), you won't run into these problems. Also, sometimes you DO NOT want to do a blind "emerge world". For instance, if I did that on my current server, Postgresql would get updated. Which is normally fine, except going from 7.3 to 7.4 results in a change in the internal database structures, and your 7.3 database cannot be read by the 7.4 server. Yet Postgresql 7.4 is reported everytime I do an "emerge world -p". Of course this can be fixed by simply updating the database(s) (which requires dumping them, then importing the dump file in the newer server), but I haven't taken the time yet to make this happen. So, until I do, I will not be doing an emerge world. HTH Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew Kent Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:13 PM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] OT - Computer Paranoia > >And honestly if your worried about the time to rebuild your computer > >after a crash, you might want to look at a distro that's a little less > >time intensive. > > > > > > > What I am thinking of doing is compiling a package CD and a custom > stage3 tarball based on my current setup, so I'll have the same > optimizations (building on this computer), and none of the wasted time. > And I like USE flags. > That would become outdated just as quickly as any other distribution. You'd have to sit and wait while it recompiled half the system for your optimizations. - Matt _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
