I'm a Gentoo newbie and not a programmer or even all that experienced at Linux. However, I am a technology manager for what it's worth. Anyway, I've been following this thread and it occurs to me that doing an auto emerge world might be better handled if there was some way to --pretend this a print a log of what would be updated. It could even be a menu-driven process allowing you to choose what to update. Does this sound feasible? As I said, I am not a programmer so this might be totally useless thinking. Just trying to be helpful.
-----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Smelser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 12:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world Done it.. :) Since I don't do automatic updates, I let one of my 486's get pretty far behind.. over 6-9 months as a matter of fact.. I did a emerge sync, emerge -udp system.. Did the gcc and glibc on their own to make sure they worked, and just kept on working the list until it was gone, then did world.. Took almost 2-3 weeks to get it up to date.. And yes, emerge sync was running once a week..=20 I remember because portage was so far behind it came up 3 times in my list..=20 now, if someone did a emerge -ud world?? That's asking for trouble.. I did a lot of manual stuff in between packages.. mostly config stuff, and make.conf changed too.. it was long and boring.. -----Original Message----- From: Spider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 9:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerrge world -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
