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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:44 am    Post subject: Isn't upgrading whole gentoo system a time consuming task? Reply with quote

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emerge --sync
emerge --update --ask world


This would update whole gentoo system. Compiling packages it would install those packages. So upgrading all packages should take much more time than any other linux distrobution.

Isn't that the biggest problem of gentoo?
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-928424-highlight-.html

Isn't this really the same question!

Control (v) Usability...

A clearer understanding of how gentoo works will help you work through some of these questions for yourself.
Your friend here is Gentoo Docs. Take some time and read through some of them.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/?catid=sysadmin

ie., A fuller update would result from emerge -uDN world.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

anb.clarke wrote:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-928424-highlight-.html

Isn't this really the same question!

Control (v) Usability...

A clearer understanding of how gentoo works will help you work through some of these questions for yourself.
Your friend here is Gentoo Docs. Take some time and read through some of them.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/?catid=sysadmin

ie., A fuller update would result from emerge -uDN world.

No, these two are not same question.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, they are : "Is gentoo for me? how is Gentoo compared with X and Y?"
Please don't start new threads.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

XavierMiller wrote:
Yes, they are : "Is gentoo for me? how is Gentoo compared with X and Y?"
Please don't start new threads.

Then where would i merge or write these questions?
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Something I noticed...
compiling the source is usually much faster than downloading the package lately.

Downloadspeeds at bytemark (UK) are at ~50-100kb/s
compiling php takes my system ~2-3min (I compile on tmpfs and pipe with -j9 etc.), downloading rather 5-6min

What I think could increase installation speeds would be a REAL parallel-fetch :idea:

Now we have like 4 jobs in parallel compiling but still only one at a time downloading... this only gives benefit for packages that are already downloaded (which is mostly not the case). So I mostly end up with only 1 running.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:29 am    Post subject: Re: Isn't upgrading whole gentoo system a time consuming tas Reply with quote

colag wrote:
Code:

emerge --sync
emerge --update --ask world


This would update whole gentoo system. Compiling packages it would install those packages. So upgrading all packages should take much more time than any other linux distrobution.

Isn't that the biggest problem of gentoo?
No, because the whole Gentoo system is not typically out of date and in need of recompiling. Typically, it's just a few. Just as an example, here's my latest update:
Code:
ceres ~ # time emerge -uDnv @world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U  ] dev-java/ant-core-1.8.4-r1 [1.8.4] USE="doc -source" 15 kB
[ebuild     U *] sys-apps/portage-2.2.0_alpha114 [2.2.0_alpha113] USE="-build doc -epydoc (ipc) (-pypy1_9) -python2 -python3 (-selinux) -xattr" LINGUAS="-pl" 9 kB
[ebuild     U  ] dev-libs/libatasmart-0.19 [0.18] USE="-static-libs" 246 kB
[ebuild     U  ] app-misc/screen-4.0.3-r5 [4.0.3-r4] USE="-debug -multiuser -nethack pam (-selinux)" 821 kB
[ebuild     U ~] media-libs/raptor-2.0.8 [2.0.7] USE="curl -debug -json -static-libs unicode" 1,697 kB

Total: 5 packages (5 upgrades), Size of downloads: 2,787 kB


>>> Verifying ebuild manifests

>>> Starting parallel fetch
(many compile messages omitted)
 * Regenerating GNU info directory index...
 * Processed 178 info files.
 * After world updates, it is important to remove obsolete packages with
 * emerge --depclean. Refer to `man emerge` for more information.

real    5m50.518s
user    3m35.529s
sys     0m30.086s
Six minutes? Peh! Now, is it longer sometimes? Sure, but the notion that you're recompiling the whole thing typically is just not true.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, just for the sake of argument, let's take it to the extreme and say you all the sudden have to update something really big like glibc and Xorg that take a very long time to compile and, again for the sake of argument, that the machine rather underpowered, like the netbook sitting right besides me.

Time it takes me, the human being, to perform the update.

Open a terminal window. Type the following. (I cron emerge --sync to happen automatically once a week)
Code:

emerge -uaD world


See if everything looks ok, type yes, go do something else. I come back an hour later and it's all done. That took me all of 30 seconds of actual work. That, unlike most package managers out there I have seen, portage as at least some form of parallel fetch, as in it downloads as the rest compiles, means you're also not wasting time waiting for packages to download on larger updates with a lot of packages.

This applies to real extreme examples. Doing the same thing on my 6 cores 8gig ram server, I would barely have a few minutes looking away before it was done.

Also, realise that in 90% of cases, you can perform the update while all services are running, so even the downtime is minimal. Anything X/GUI related is the only place I've seen problems performing updates while things run. YMMV
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:25 am    Post subject: Re: Isn't upgrading whole gentoo system a time consuming tas Reply with quote

colag wrote:
Code:

emerge --sync
emerge --update --ask world


This would update whole gentoo system. Compiling packages it would install those packages. So upgrading all packages should take much more time than any other linux distrobution.

Isn't that the biggest problem of gentoo?


Not really You can just walk away while it's compiling, or any more with pre-emption on and the nice value set down, you don't hardly notice that your computer is compilng (save the wine of the fans)

Usually you want --deep in there as well and a revdep-rebuild and dispatch-conf afer as well.

The biggest problems I've had is that update sometime introduce weird breakages than need to be manually resolved. Also trying to add a new program and service sometimes requires be to re-compile the kernel to support x feature.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I cron eix-sync and emerge -uDavtNf once a day in the early morning to automatically sync and download the source. updates take only minutes every day.

but honestly, the amount of control i gain with gentoo, if this was any other distro updating my desktop system to a new release would be a nightmare
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Isn't upgrading whole gentoo system a time consuming tas Reply with quote

colag wrote:
Code:

emerge --sync
emerge --update --ask world


This would update whole gentoo system. Compiling packages it would install those packages. So upgrading all packages should take much more time than any other linux distrobution.

Isn't that the biggest problem of gentoo?


Familiarize yourself with either tmux or screen. Then begin doing updates. Feel free to log out while the updates run.

Also, you might want to install ccache and put ccache into FEATURES in /etc/make.conf. Updating software is faster whenever ccache can use the result of an old compilation.
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