On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:52 +0000, James wrote: > Hello, > > Some time ago, I upgraded several systems I manage. > First was the (painful) upgrade of kde-monolith > to kde-meta. [1] > > Then the easier of the two xorg 6.8 to xorg 7.0. [2] > > I have kept these pacakges masked for a while on other systems, > some of which I only get possession of sporadically for critical/huge > upgrade. > > > So my questions are: > > 1. Are these still the most updated urls?
AFAIK, yes. I also did both of these upgrades recently on a Dell notebook (as well as the dreaded gcc 3.3 -> 3.4), and all three went off without a hitch using those very howtos > > 2. Which should be performed first kde monolithic-->meta > or Xorg to Xorg-modular? Doesn't matter, they are independant. FWIW, I found the Xorg upgrade to be far easier - unmerge 6.8, adjust USE, merge 7.0. I had some minor tweaking to do with xorg.conf and ati-drivers, but nothing out of the ordinary for a gentoo user :-) The KDE upgrade was much more painful, mostly because I couldn't just unmerge one package and merge another - I hadn't installed package "kde" way back when, instead I had used kde-base, kde-network etc (about 7 in total). Figuring out which -meta packages and which regular builds to use took some time. The merges themselves went smoothly. The worst was gcc though. I like to tinker with my box, so I took the safe route with "emerge -e system ; emerge -e world" to be sure everything would be rebuilt. It took 36 hours, eventually I had to run it from a tty, niced to 10, so I could use the machine in the meantime > 3. Is there any method to streamline/automate these tasks > so that the machines compile the new software overnight, unattended? Xorg is relatively quick to build, I think mine was an hour once the emerge got going. KDE took several hours. But in both cases it was a few minutes to do the unmerge, so I didn't see the need to automate it. I would advise however that you quickpkg all relevant packages on the machines, just in case, so that you can put them back if the unexpected happens alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
