On Donnerstag 06 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag 06 November 2008 08:21:26 schrieb ext KH: > > Well that's the point. You want to get rid of them. So you are unmerging > > them. The moment something fails after unmerging and before emerging the > > new packages, you will be very happy to have your old packages. You just > > put them pack in place and you have a running system again. It's a > > seatbelt. > > That's why > > 1) I use paludis, no seatbelts required. One can safely de-install com_err > and ss _after_ upgrading e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-libs. > > 2) I outlined to first emerge -f e2fsprogs e2fsprogs. It's known that wget > will fail after unmerging com_err, so the new packages need to be fetched > first. That's all. No need to make the thing more complicated than it is.
and both have nothing to do with the fact, that it is wise to have a backup of essintial files in case something goes horribly wrong. oh, and latest portage can 'break' blocks too....
