daid kahl <daid...@gmail.com> writes: >> Don't worry about it. I'm not sure if portage-2.1.9.20 will deal with this >> automagically (I *think* it does these days and 2.2 definitely does) but if >> not just >> >> emerge -C shadow ; emerge -1 shadow >> >> then emerge -avuND world. >> >> No good technical reason for doing shadow first apart from getting it over >> and >> done with while you watch and confirm it works fine. Then do world and wander >> over to the kettle letting portage go on with doing it's thing unattended > > For my own comfort, on a case like this, if I didn't have the portage > FEATURE buildpkg or buildsyspkg turned on, I'd make sure that was on > and that I had a functional backup of shadow to install from binary, > in case something went very wrong. But I tend to be extremely > cautious in terms of how I maintain my system, and a lot of that > caution is just paranoia.
Thanks for the advice. I do use quickpkg as well. allan
