Are you a package building addict?

uberkermitt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 107

How many people here get a little jittery when there are no upgrades? I seem to, and its a bit of a problem, because I sometimes will get the urge to upgrade something (ie., to ~amd64) which may increase the chances of system breakage. For example, I want to give upgrading gcc to 4.1 another go. I cannot decide whether its worth it or not though. I had a poor experience last time I tried...

celestialwizard · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject:

Do it in a jail or vm? that way you can still play without breaking your real system

theJackalnz · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 32

*addicted*
Currently tempting death by accessing my portage which is stored ( unavoidably ) on a drive which is failing badly in order to get updates.

GCC4 series I like

splat -s world ( world goes Aaah.. I AM SPLAT!! D: )

gkmac · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:51 am Post subject:

alistair · Retired Dev Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 869

IM an addict. But I jump on the xgl bandwagon and may very soon jump on the java one 2. I got very nervious a couple of weeks back when the update activity I had to perform was a lot less than normal. Was twitching while looking at packages.gentoo.org and not seeing much of interest being updated.
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clintpatty · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject:

I'm addicted. I update whenever I need a new feature, will get a lot of use out of a new feature, or there is a bugfix/security update.

theJackalnz · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 32

alistair · Retired Dev Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 869

maybe I should become a emerge -C addict. I have lots of packages, eg mono that I dont need.
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enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

I spent a good chunk of the day yesterday trying to force GCC 4.1.1 UCLIBC and PIE patches into the latest GCC 4.2.0 weekly snapshot with very limited luck.

When there are no new ebuilds, make your own!
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baigsabeeh · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject:

Hell yeah! And the worst part is, it so fun... :lol:

. Right now I'm rebuilding my world and I have 131 packages left. I also did the hashstyle thing and then went for Conrad cflags. I might also go for GCC 4.2
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Donman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 117

You could say I am addicted. I have already pretty much updated as far as I can go. Really the only thing to move on to is the Glibc-2.6 snapshots. But I like a little amount of stability. I am currently using the Conrad guide's CFLAGS, --hash-style, GCC-4.2, Glibc-2.5, Binutils-2.17.50.0.6, ~amd64, the XFCE snapshots.....the list goes on. However, should anyone else attempt using what I am they should prepare for some compiling problems. They are easily fixed by trimming down the Conrad guide's CFLAGS, and removing --as-needed. I could not get KDE to compile with GCC-4.2, which is not that big of a deal because I dont really like KDE....Other than that, my systems living quite well on the bleeding edge.

rokstar83 · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 423 Location: MD

Hello. My name is rokstar83 and i'm a build adict.

bdm · Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:42 am Post subject:

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home