Question about critical software

[egoitz]

Good morning mates,

I'm going to try to explain what has happened to me when doing an upgrade world. I have done as usual periodically an emerge --update --newuse --with-bdeps=y --changed-deps=y --deep @world. When building Chromium 62 it told me that a version of gcc better than 5 was needed to build it. I had installed the one I think that came with stage3 so 4.9.3 in that moment and due to yesterdays emerge for updating world a new one was automatically installed. The gcc 6.4.0. When seeing I had both installed and emerge failed with this error of Chromium I switched with gcc-config from one version to another and later I did the emerge --unmerge gcc fpr trying to just leave one of the versions, just the new one. My intention was not to basically update gcc so I didn't read any special documentation about it, which now I have do. Tge Gentoo wiki basically sais that you must in this case do the emerge, later select the new version and later reemerge libtool and llvm in my case. After that the emerge -e @system and later the @world.

Ok, so is what I have done now. But have seen too, another machines, like my laptop in which it seems too that gcc and some other critical software to have been updated, surely the glibc, gcc, llvm too... don't know.... and purpose for which, I have always left emerge to do it's job. I usually launched :

emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse @world
emerge --depclean
revdep-rebuild


If I saw some error, I perhaps unmerged a package (I remember boost some time ago), later launch again the emerge world, or an emerge @preserved-libs or whatever... but without more issues... Now I'm working pretty fine in all my workstations.. and servers.... but.. Having noticed that I always just do the emerge world wthout noticing what it's going to update.... and if something happened just, you now... unmerging a package or similar.. (I don't now remember other commands launched)...

Now at present for updating I launch :

emerge --update --newuse --with-bdeps=y --changed-deps=y --deep @world
emerge --depclean
revdep-rebuild


Having said this, and knowing I have never dealed specilly with glibc, gcc, llvm at Gentoo, because have just left emerge @world to do all, or at least, do the minimum as an unmerge or a emerge -oneshot or similar... of some package for emerge @world to work, would you recommend me to reinstall all my Gentoo machines?. They seem to work fine now....

Best regards,

[NeddySeagoon]

egoitz,

There is no need te reinstall.

Your regular update cycle is missing

[egoitz]

Hi NeddySeagoon!

Thanks a lot for your time and advises. So then all should be ok and no need of reinstalling systems should exist due to the commented reson?. You know sometimes, you can make this kind of mistake, or as the following ones you commented below. I have done emerge --ask --emptytree @system and emerge --ask --emptytree @world (for trying to avoid the reinstallation in case was possible)... but had thought (before writting here) that perhaps reinstallation with a clean disk and new fresh stage could be appropiate and safer.... for not having noticed about the gcc upgrade procedure and the rest of updated packages done by the normal emerge world I said I use for updating system....
So if not updating just gcc... and doing an emerge world I could do just what you told below?. No need of doing the emerge gcc, immediately later libtool, llvm and so with oneshot?... can be all this left to my regular update process with emerge world? Which I have forgotten adding one option before when commenting how I launched. It's concretely : emerge --update --newuse --with-bdeps=y --changed-deps=y --complete-graph=y --deep @world (wth complete-graph)

Cheers!!

[NeddySeagoon]

egoitz,

The procedure to update gcc varies depending on what changes between versions.

The procedure I gave, with the read the news in the middle, ensures that you are notified of any other changes where you need to take action.
Just occasionally, there are things you need to do before reboot.

Oh ... I missed

[egoitz]

Ok then mate, but.... having all said... including I use the complete-graph and all.....

You consider not need of reinstalling the entire system from 0, now I have acted the way described before?