How long do you have Gentoo without making a fresh install?

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rhill · Post by **rhill** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:19 am

my forum join date minus two weeks is when i first started using Gentoo (couldn't get X working and couldn't get into gmail in links to confirm my forum registration). this install:

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root / # head /var/log/emerge.log 
1108989257: Started emerge on: Feb 21, 2005 12:34:17
1108989257:  *** emerge  sync

if your sync is slow you can try wiping the metadata cache and rebuilding it.

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# rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/*
# emerge metadata

if it works let me know. i've always wondered if it actually does anything.

Agilo · Post by **Agilo** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:40 am

I've been using it for a year and a half, now.
Probably a bit longer.

Currently, I'm kind of looking for a replacement (in the form of *BSD).
(Gentoo's fine, it's not that.

)

loki99 · Post by **loki99** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:04 am

mine is about a year and a half and is actually getting faster than slower, since i'm getting better at tweaking the system.

so i don't feel the need to reinstall, until i'll get myself an amd64 X2.

plate · Post by **plate** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:08 am

Gentoo is installed once, then it hums along quite nicely. Here's `head -n 1 /var/log/emerge.log` from three of my oldest hosts:

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Started emerge on: Oct 27, 2002

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Started emerge on: Nov 10, 2002

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1041897294: Started emerge on: Jan 06, 2003 23:54:54

The first two had to survive the transition from gcc 2.95 to 3.x in their day, but ever since then they haven't been tripping much over stony updates (which all the hosts in the house receive about once a week). They're all ~x86 since day 1, by the way, never did them enough harm to require dramatic rescue operations. The only reinstallation of Gentoo I ever did was on a Mac with a failing hard disk that crashed before I could get a backup...

kyPixel · Post by **kyPixel** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:47 pm

Mines ~30 minutes old, started it up before I left for work this morning, hopefully everything will work out fine ^^.

pitcrawler · Post by **pitcrawler** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 1:34 pm

I did a stage 1 on 3/nptl install on my main pc about 3 months ago and a jackass install on my second pc about a month ago.

asimon · Post by **asimon** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 2:06 pm

Two installations: one from 2002, the other is two months old.

Edit: Yes, my old installtion is not running very fast either, but I attribut that mostly to the hardware.
'emerge --sync' of course is orders of magnitute slower than it was in 2002, but that's because the Portage tree has grown quite a bit in the last 3 years. And g++ (<4 on the older system) has become slower too with the years.

pablo_supertux · Post by **pablo_supertux** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 2:40 pm

My current installation was ready on march/may 2004 or something like that. Since then I needn't a new installation. I've installed in that time 2 or 3 times but only because I wanted to test something and they were installed on other partitions.

Sadako · Post by **Sadako** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:42 pm

My current installation is only about six months old, but seeing as how I've completed five or six bootstraps on this machine since I started (which would be a day or two before I joined these forums), I think that's pretty damn good.

Still, I think I'm getting itchy feet.
I'd like to start a fresh installation withot certain stuff, and a gcc 3.4.4 / glibc 2.3.5 bootstrap is very tempting,

ripper2256 · Post by **ripper2256** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:45 pm

dirtyepic wrote: if your sync is slow you can try wiping the metadata cache and rebuilding it.
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# rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/*
# emerge metadata
if it works let me know. i've always wondered if it actually does anything.

yeah, calculating dependecies is now a little bit faster, thx!!

Verted · Post by **Verted** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:49 pm

I've been using Gentoo for one year, at the end of this month. My current install however is only a few months old, because of a hard drive failure.

klavrynd · Post by **klavrynd** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:04 pm

Started emerge on: Sep 03, 2004 16:25:09

Pithlit · Post by **Pithlit** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:39 pm

# head -n 1 /var/log/emerge.log
1063424179: Started emerge on: Jun 13, 2003 03:36:19

Hehehe... Friday 13th. Now who said it's an unlucky day? Actually it was kinda unlucky since the comp refused to boot in the morning and I had to reinstall (due to borked partition tables)

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*edit* Morning for me is when I get to work

hubkos · Post by **hubkos** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:47 pm

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head /var/log/emerge.log
1055548777: Started emerge on: Jun 13, 2003 23:59:37

so, it seems i've installed it on the same (lucky) friday!

is there a howto or some manual how to clean old gentoo installations (i mean not format

?
i feel i've gathered much garbage because i'm trying every software (and all alternatives) before i use it.

greets to forum

michelle778 · Post by **michelle778** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:11 pm

angel michelle778 # head /var/log/emerge.log
1112380280: Started emerge on: Apr 01, 2005 18:31:20

That's no April fool - and I love my Gentoo install...

John5788 · Post by **John5788** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:01 am

the poll options are kind of inaccurate. mine was started in november 13 2004, but i can still vote < 2 years old ^_^

lynxnyl · Post by **lynxnyl** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 6:01 pm

navaden@lynxlynxsp ~ $ head -n1 /var/log/emerge.log
1089944206: Started emerge on: Jul 16, 2004 02:16:46

Wow, didn't think this would be so old.
My second install, someone cast a lightning bolt at my comp and half of the components failed their save...

Radea · Post by **Radea** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 6:50 pm

I did a stage3/1 yesterday.

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 7:06 pm

almost a year, as old as the CPU and mobo it runs on (did a fresh install to move from x86 to and64)

SavageMindz · Post by **SavageMindz** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:18 pm

These are the two installations of gentoo I have here.

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head -n 1 /var/log/emerge.log
1066078819: Started emerge on: Oct 13, 2003 21:00:19

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head -n 1 /var/log/emerge.log
Started emerge on: Oct 26, 2002

yokem55 · Post by **yokem55** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:01 pm

Interestingly, those it looks like those that installed on the 2004.3 AMD64 tarballs, got a /var/log/emerge.log that was already populated:

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 # head -n1 /var/log/emerge.log
1098946153: Started emerge on: Oct 28, 2004 06:49:13

But, after looking more closely at the file, the last 10/28 build wraps up, and then the next build is on March 5, 2005, which is when I got my shiny new Athlon64 and did a reinstall with AMD64.

Hauser · Post by **Hauser** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 4:39 am

I bought my laptop last Christmas, so my system is just over 6 months old. I remember that's when the 1/3 installation method was just beginning to become popular and I finished just a couple of days before his post http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-27 ... art-0.html came out.

LucaSpiller · Post by **LucaSpiller** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 7:41 am

So far about two weeks old - I borked it and recovered from a custom stage 3, so you could argue it is around 5 months old. I first started using Gentoo about 9 months ago, but then wanted to try the 1/3 install.

numerodix · Post by **numerodix** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:57 pm

Coming up on 2 years now and it's running perfectly well. I was worried there was something wrong with the root ext3 partition so I did a backup, formatted and untarred. Not sure there actually was a problem though. Didn't take more than 3 hours though.

InfinityX · Post by **InfinityX** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 2:15 pm

2 years at the end of January. This being the first Linux install I've actually stuck with, and coming from Windows where formatting every 3-6 months was considered normal, it's heaven

How long do you have Gentoo without making a fresh install?

How old is your Gentoo Installation?