On Tuesday 31 August 2004 15:03, Shawn Grover wrote: > Also, sometimes you DO NOT want to do a blind "emerge world". For > instance, if I did that on my current server, Postgresql would get updated. > Which is normally fine, except going from 7.3 to 7.4 results in a change > in the internal database structures, and your 7.3 database cannot be read > by the 7.4 server. Yet Postgresql 7.4 is reported everytime I do an > "emerge world -p". Of course this can be fixed by simply updating the > database(s) (which requires dumping them, then importing the dump file in > the newer server), but I haven't taken the time yet to make this happen. > So, until I do, I will not be doing an emerge world.
You can fix this 'semi-problem' by going into /var/cache/edb/world and commenting out packages that you want to simply have ignored in your emerge -u world. You can uncomment them when you'd like them updated, or update them manually, or whatever. I had Samba commented out for months because I didn't want to accidently update Samba 2.x to 3.x. Now that we're at 3.x, I have it uncommented again... One thing I've never really looked at is creating a tarball similar to the ones given by the stages. I can't see a reason why I couldn't just tar up my while machine, and then untar it again later if neccessary. I've never spent much time on it, but I've also never figured out how to tar up /dev though... Kev. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
