On Sunday 09 January 2005 07:40, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Having carefully backed up my whole root partition, I just embarked > on the huge emerge that had built up in just the few days around the > new years. I was worried about Xorg, of course -- it was going to be > a major pain if that didn't work. In the event, everything seems > fine, but there were some oddities, in my opinion. It also seemed to > replace much of KDE and a bunch of other things too. 38 steps. > > The oddities: > > For one thing, emerge first emerged xorg 6.8.0-r3, then downgraded it > to xorg 6.7.0-r3, all in the same batch. Anyone know why it does > this? I'm running on 6.70 right now, with no noticeable difference > from the earlier XFree, so I'm not complaining. It just seems weird. > Also very time-consuming.
If you sync your system once in a quarter you can expect strange behavior ;-) Seriously: it can depend on the fact that the upgrade/update touched portage and/or profiles. > For another, when it was done, and quite aside from the automatic > trivial config merges, there were 291 config file changes that > etc-update wanted me to scrutinize. I don't have the attention span > for that, so I looked at the 9 that I most nearly know what they do. > The rest I just told it to automerge, and I'm hoping for the best. > Is it really necessary to have 300 config files changed in a given > update? There just seems to be something unfriendly about that. > > ++ kevin I put a "signature" as comment in every /etc/ file I edit, so it is easier to sort out which config files deserve _more_ attention. IMHO, anyway you should better - sync your system more often or - plan big builds when you have time to look them after. Again IMHO ten minutes saved in a blind etc-update with a -3 or -5 switch don't worth hours trying to solve "strange issues", and potentially rock solid system crawling... Dispatch-conf may be better suited to your likings, tough... Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.10, Compiled #2 Mon Dec 27 06:35:03 CET 2004 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 1.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total macula -- [email protected] mailing list
