Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > this is a very general question. > Having used LinuxFromScratch for several years, I've switched to > Gentoo a few month ago. > Im must say I'm quite impressed. > > Still, for a newcomer like me, there remains one problem. > How to upgrade Gentoo? > > Having tried to upgrade to udev-103 I fell flat on my face until > I've found a hint by some helpful soul which indicated > that I should unmerge some packages, rc-update del some > scripts before I upgrade to udev-103. > > The next step which I'm afraid of is upgrading > to glibc-2.5 > > Having destroyed (the system) of my machine some years > ago by upgrading glibc (on Suse), I know that this > is not a trivial step. > > So, the question: > > Is there a general source of information about > warnings, actions to be taking, etc to be followed > when upgrading certains critical packages. > > Many thanks for your help and hints, > Helmut. > > >
Generally "emerge --sync && emerge -DuNav world" keeps your gentoo up-to-date. Cleaning useless packages is done by "emerge --depclean -av". Resolving and fixing broken dependencies is done by "revdep-rebuild -av". HTH -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
