On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:17:53 -0600 Mike Diehl <mdi...@diehlnet.com> wrote:
> It seems that as > long as I keep rebuilding machines from a current live CD, all is > well. But if I try to upgrade anything else, I end up having to > reformat. I've been using Gentoo long enough to have actually met > Daniel Robbins in person, but I'm considering moving to a different > distribution. I would say that if you do a complete world update at least every six months, followed by revdep-rebuild, keeping Gentoo up-to-date should be relatively painless, excluding all the blockers you have to resolve. ie.: emerge -uDNav world revdep-rebuild -i -- -a The libselinux problems you ran into are known, but that's also the reason why libselinux is masked on all recent profiles. /loki_val