Re: [gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 21:36:37 +0200, Thanasis wrote: > > While you can untar it, that's a bit messy, and has caused problems > > for me in the past (overwriting the /lib symlink with a directory. > > There is an option for tar, to *not overwrite* a symlinked directory, I > think it's *h*

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 07/12/2016 20:57, Alan Grimes wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> So why are you running it? > > Do I really need to answer that? > I want my system upgraded and the gentle approach isn't working -> try > the rough approach. > > > I think a significant issue is that I have a number of dead and

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Paul Klos
Op woensdag 7 december 2016 13:57:04 schreef Alan Grimes: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > So why are you running it? > > Do I really need to answer that? > I want my system upgraded and the gentle approach isn't working -> try > the rough approach. > Hello Alan, It's against my better judgement, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Thanasis
On 12/07/2016 04:28 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 16:14:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I do not know what quickpkg is. Makes a tarball of a package so you can later untar it and get the package back without a remerge. It's all in portage's man pages While you can untar it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Alan Grimes
Alan McKinnon wrote: > So why are you running it? Do I really need to answer that? I want my system upgraded and the gentle approach isn't working -> try the rough approach. I think a significant issue is that I have a number of dead and missing packages: Here's the revdep rebuild list, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 16:14:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I do not know what quickpkg is. > > Makes a tarball of a package so you can later untar it and get the > package back without a remerge. It's all in portage's man pages While you can untar it, that's a bit messy, and has caused

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 07/12/2016 15:47, Alan Grimes wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 07/12/2016 15:03, Alan Grimes wrote: >>> Certainly there are groups of packages in the 439 that could be updated >>> without triggering these conflicts but then doing that automatically >>> wouldn't waste enough of the user's

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Alan Grimes
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 07/12/2016 15:03, Alan Grimes wrote: >> Certainly there are groups of packages in the 439 that could be updated >> without triggering these conflicts but then doing that automatically >> wouldn't waste enough of the user's time... >> >> >> [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 07/12/2016 15:03, Alan Grimes wrote: > I have a user consuming most of my CPU time so that's part of the reason > why it's slow... > > My current misery factory is 439... > > I didn't even get it to update BASH until day 4... The thing seems to > have a problem with the --deep flag these

[gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Alan Grimes
I have a user consuming most of my CPU time so that's part of the reason why it's slow... My current misery factory is 439... I didn't even get it to update BASH until day 4... The thing seems to have a problem with the --deep flag these days, omitting deep seems to evade a number of the