On 10/08/2014 17:45, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I haven't updated in a little while, and am seeing a lot of big updates... > > The main ones that concern me are: > > perl (5.16 > 5.18)
No problem other than you might have a bunch of blockers to resolve and of course perl-cleaner to run. Just keep cycling through it till it completes; preserved-rebuild will keep your system intact. All regular Gentoo stuff, nothing to be concerned about. Besides, if it breaks you know what to do (and no-one can really tell you about breakage in advance) > & > mariadb (5.5.37 > 10.0.12) No info > > and of course, I always worry about: > > glib (2.38.2-r1 > 2.40.0-r1) This is not a problem, but you keep raising it. glib is a bunch of helper functions and in no way related at all to glibc (an entirely different kettle of fish) > & > glibc (2.17 > 2.19-r1) No problem. There were no ABI changes to glibc for ages now > > Anyone have any warnings/caveats about these updates? > > Especially the mariadb update? I'm thinking about masking that one for a > while, just to be safe... Run it in your test environment and satisfy yourself first -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
