Again top-posting :) One thing for you before I leave: I know that it is possible to avoid installation of unwanted upgrades using portage, but I don't like to have to say my comp what NOT TO DO. I await from my comp to do what I say it TO DO because I'm (mostly) knowing what I'm doing.
F. PS: Imagine you send your wife buying some food. What is more applicable? Telling her what to buy or telling her what not to buy? On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 20:04 +0200, sdoma wrote: > I've tried to get documentoin for Tcl/tk, put 'doc' into the package.use > for these files and re-emerged tcl and tk (BTW: no docs for these > packages came up). emerge told me, that there is a new version of > portage available and that it is HIGHLY recommended to upgrade portage. > I did so and 87 packages where upgraded, amongst this glibc to 2.4, what > hurts me now because I planned to install Oracle, which requires > glibc2.3. > Seems x86 or ~x86 doesn't make much a difference. I reinstalled the > system not so long ago with x86 fo this reason. > > I remember the same problems a couple of times in the past. /etc/fstab > was "upgraded" to the initial one (the one with /dev/BOOT and dev/ROOT > inside resulting in a not booting system), networking stopped working > letting me on my own, stopping hotplug (and historical > coldplug-nonsense) functionality, udev.rules where replaced by some > initial one for a syntax change in udev (using ``sed'' would be a better > choice here) ... > > Just a minor thing, before I realized the USB problem, I was working on > 'localhost:unknown-domain' after the "upgrade". > > I'm really sick of solving the same problems again and again. Seems > Gentoo is a system for students not needing their comps to be working. > > For me it looks at this point like: "Every other distribution is a > better choice for somebody who needs his machine for work". I don't like > to say that, but this is my expirience. :(((((((((((((( > > Regards > Frank > > > PS: X-cuse me top-posting. This is a really exportant issue, and I'm > disturbing it. ;-( > > PS 2: Co work with LFS! They have the same target (get people to know > the functionality of Linux). I'll install some working distro which is > conform with other POSIX compliant systems ... with a tear in my > eye. :(((((((((((( > > > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 18:31 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:48:20 +0200, sdoma wrote: > > > > > I'm running 2.6.17.6. > > > It worked before the upgrade > > > > Which upgrade? emerge -u world could update one package or a hundred. > > Which packages were upgraded? > > > > Please don't top-post. > > > > > -- [email protected] mailing list
