On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> On Mon, 2 May 2011 11:16:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> > Does stable portage support the --autounmask option to emerge? >> >>> I use ~amd64 portage so I have supports that feature but what command >>> do I run today to unmask the version level they will make stable next >>> week? (For instance 0.7 instead of 0.8) I don't think that feature >>> looks into the future like that. >> >> The latest version of baselayout is over six weeks old, so I'd go for >> that. >> >> >> -- >> Neil Bothwick > > Life's a crap shoot. (As are all my index futures trades today.) Sounds good. > > Cheers, > Mark >
OK, I'm writing this from an updated Gentoo VM running in Virtualbox on my (as yet) not updated Gentoo server. Things went well. The only semi-issue that came up for me so far was the rc-sys="" variable not being set. The way upgrade doc is written I had the impression that this only mattered if I was in a machine that ran VMs on it and not to be done in the VM itself. Seems that you really want rc_sys to be set for any Gentoo install I guess. Not sure at this point how I'd tell if there was some other problem, but as far as a simple VM goes it only took about 15 minutes to complete the upgrade and it booted first time. Cheers, Mark
