Jeff Simpson wrote:

> When I upgrade, I just emerge everything, frontend, backend, etc etc,
> but I just don't restart any of the software until I'm ready for the
> upgrade. Until the backend is actually restarted, it continues to run
> the old version, same with the frontend. Even tho the binary on the
> drive got replaced with the new version, the old one is still running
> in memory.

Don't you risk database corruption doing that?  The database is updated
(new tables and such might be added) during the install.  If a
significant enough change is made, you might create problems you don't
want to have when the backend inserts data.

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