Peter Humphrey <peter <at> prh.myzen.co.uk> writes:
> > You should be able to just switch to 4.8 without rebuilding anything. > > That's what I did. Of course it can't hurt to rebuild everything, but > > you can schedule that for later (like an overnight rebuild of <at> world > > with --keep-going). It's not critical to do it immediately. That's exactly what I did, more or less. All seems fine. > I'd have thought you needed to emerge -e world if you really want to be > protected. Yea, maybe. I read the man page on emptytree. I get it actually replaces by a "reinstall". Does this do more than if I just reboot after emerge @system @world and then reboot? I'd be curious to know exactly what reinstall does that is not covered by just starting up a given code again? Is it that it forces a reinstall and stop/starts the binary without rebooting? Rebooting catches *everything* even better than --emptytree ? James
