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sprite
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 Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 1:58 am Post subject: emerge -u world |
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last time i ran this on my desktop comp it totally screwed my entire system over, and now that i run, emerge -pu world i get:
emerge -pu world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/grep-2.5.1-r1 [2.5-r1]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/grub-0.93.20030118 [0.92-r1]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.5 [4.3-r1]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/procps-3.1.9 [3.1.8]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/groff-1.18.1-r2 [1.18.1-r1]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-1.5l-r6 [1.5l-r5]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/pam-login-3.11 [3.10]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.11z-r4 [2.11y]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r7 [1.60-r6]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/fileutils-4.1.11-r1 [4.1.11]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/gawk-3.1.2-r3 [3.1.1-r2]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/psmisc-21.2-r2 [21.2-r1]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.7-r2 [1.16.7-r1]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.8-r1 [1.8.5.9]
obviously there are some things updated, question is, do i even need to bother with it, and if so, how should i go about it safely?? emerge them seperately? not at all?? thanks~ |
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reves
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 2:06 am Post subject: |
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Hello sprite,
The only thing you would really need to update is any package that was updated due to security flaws (or I suppose any other bug fixes). You may want to upgrade a package if there is a new feature you want as well. Other than that there is no real need to update but you'd probably want to back up your system if you plan to do some updates.
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sprite
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| ok, and is there a way through the console to find out if the updated packages have security/bug flaws?? or a webpage for it?? |
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reves
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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To see what was updated in the package you could check the change log: | Code: | | head /usr/portage/<catagory-name>/<package-name>/changelog |
You'd probably also want to check the GLSAs in the Gentoo Weekly News
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chizu
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I would wait until the next baselayout comes out to do a full emerge -u world. It seems the current one creates some odd errors for quite a few people. Most of that doesn't look like it REALLY needs updating right now anyway. |
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sprite
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| ahhhh very nice, thank you both =) |
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b1nd3n14l
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 9:59 am Post subject: |
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I had no trouble with baselayout upgrade...
godzilla bin # emerge -p baselayout
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.8-r1
You just need to watch what your doing with "etc-update"
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sprite
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | You just need to watch what your doing with "etc-update" |
means?? =] hehe still quite new to linux hehe |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| sprite wrote: | | Quote: | | You just need to watch what your doing with "etc-update" |
means?? =] hehe still quite new to linux hehe |
etc-update replaces old config files if you use autoupdate ( -5 ) option, and that may change your fstab for example and the computer wont boot up on the next restart:)
So you need to pay real attention.
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sprite
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 2:13 am Post subject: |
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| heh, that would indeed be quite bad wouldnt it... ok thanks =) |
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ValKov
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 11:24 am Post subject: |
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b1nd3n14l wrote:
| Quote: | | You just need to watch what your doing with "etc-update" |
Train is gone...  Can you explain, which config files should be edited or replaced ? |
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clumsyninja
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Train is gone... Can you explain, which config files should be edited or replaced ? |
when you run etc-config, it updates/replaces all config files (usually in /etc) that have been altered when you update/merge programs. what i do is run etc-update at level -3 and jot down all the affected conf files, make the proper backups
| Code: | | cp /etc/make.cong ~/.bak |
then run etc-update again at -3 and make the changes (i would never run -5...you just never know what you missed the first time!) |
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