Kevin Anderson wrote:
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 15:03, Shawn Grover wrote:
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.
You can fix this 'semi-problem' by going into /var/cache/edb/world and
commenting out packages that you want to simply have ignored in your emerge
-u world. You can uncomment them when you'd like them updated, or update
them manually, or whatever. I had Samba commented out for months because I
didn't want to accidently update Samba 2.x to 3.x. Now that we're at 3.x, I
have it uncommented again...
One thing I've never really looked at is creating a tarball similar to the
ones given by the stages. I can't see a reason why I couldn't just tar up my
while machine, and then untar it again later if neccessary. I've never spent
much time on it, but I've also never figured out how to tar up /dev though...
Look at gentoo catalyst. It is the utility that makes the official
stage tarballs and the official packageCD, and the official LiveCD. The
cool thing is, you can make unofficial versions of each of those if you
want. I've been considering a packageCD for some time, and I've always
kind of liked the idea of having a personalized livecd (especially one I
can rebuild to current really quickly).
Kev.
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