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The_Great_Sephiroth
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My boss asked me to update his laptop today. The thing is, it hasn't been updated in six or eight months! I was prepared for a weekend of cursing, wanting to throw the laptop out a window, and support from the forums as I worked through blockers. So I began...
Step one, emerged the new kernel, Intel microcode, and Linux formware. Built the configuration file, built the kernel, installed everything and updated GRUB. Rebooted. So far so good...
Next I updated GCC. Emerged gcc as per the guide, no issues yet. Selected the new compiler, rebuilt the library, and removed the old one. Checked with revdep-rebuild. All good! Rebooted for good measure.
Now came the frustration. Logged into the shell, killed xdm and NetworkManager, then manually connected to my wireless network. I ran emerge -avuND @world and saw this pop up on the screen.
Luckiest man on the entire planet...
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When you are the average joe, you fight windows on your own...
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Did all 995 packages merge successfully, though? 
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| Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 9:45 am Post subject: |
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| Fitzcarraldo wrote: | | Did all 995 packages merge successfully, though? |
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Assuming he's on stable, all should go well. etnull's point cannot be ignored, OP's boss is a legend!
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VinzC
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I feel lucky 
I got [only] about 680 packages to upgrade after more than one year... And they all (except just one) compiled & installed successfully.
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The_Great_Sephiroth
Try this on your boss.
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The_Great_Sephiroth
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My boss would figure that one out. And yes, so far all is good. I am at 738 being completed already. The laptop has an i3-7100U and a 512GB M.2 drive. It goes much faster than my Latitude!
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| VinzC wrote: | I feel lucky
I got [only] about 680 packages to upgrade after more than one year... And they all (except just one) compiled & installed successfully. |
That's actually quite impressive.
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| VinzC wrote: | I feel lucky
I got [only] about 680 packages to upgrade after more than one year... And they all (except just one) compiled & installed successfully. |
| Muso wrote: | | That's actually quite impressive. |
Just note that I feel lucky not because those packages did compile successfully — it's been several world upgrades that I keep being impressed how reliable Gentoo has become, at least for me, kudos Dev's — rather than the "relatively small" amount of accumulated old packages.
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I forgot to update this. All 995 packages built without a hitch. I rebooted and all is good, except that X does not start for ages. I can work on that later. Either way, all good, and I am impressed.
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| VinzC wrote: | | VinzC wrote: | I feel lucky
I got [only] about 680 packages to upgrade after more than one year... And they all (except just one) compiled & installed successfully. |
| Muso wrote: | | That's actually quite impressive. |
Just note that I feel lucky not because those packages did compile successfully — it's been several world upgrades that I keep being impressed how reliable Gentoo has become, at least for me, kudos Dev's — rather than the "relatively small" amount of accumulated old packages. |
Breakage is definitely less common today than it was many years back. The last one for me was the openssl update, that was a bit painful, especially with the pentoo overlay. I'm still impressed with how smoothly Gentoo updates, especially considering that it is, essentially, a scripted LFS.
| The_Great_Sephiroth wrote: | | I forgot to update this. All 995 packages built without a hitch. I rebooted and all is good, except that X does not start for ages. I can work on that later. Either way, all good, and I am impressed. |
Nice!
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I'd love a boss who's running Gentoo on his laptop, how cool is that?!?
Impressive that it seemed to update without a hitch...not updating a Gentoo install in months is one of the cardinal sins in life
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| doalwa wrote: | I'd love a boss who's running Gentoo on his laptop, how cool is that?!?
Impressive that it seemed to update without a hitch...not updating a Gentoo install in months is one of the cardinal sins in life |
Skol!
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| doalwa wrote: | | not updating a Gentoo install in months is one of the cardinal sins in life |
I love to be a long time, repeat sinner
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