James Ausmus <james.ausmus <at> gmail.com> writes: > Ordinarily, I'd just remove the blocking packages and away I'd go with the 'emerge -uDNv world' command.
emerge -uDNvp world: blocks B ] media-video/nvidia-kernel (is blocking x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774) [blocks B ] media-video/nvidia-glx (is blocking x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774) <snip> Can I just remove the blocking packages and 'emerge -uDNv world' ??? > Yep - it's pretty harmless - the proprietary nVidia driver packages > have been combined into a single ebuild to make things easier. > If you want to be *really* safe, go to a virtual console > (CTRL+ALT+F[1-6]), login, stop X (/etc/init.d/xdm stop), unload the > nvidia module (rmmod nvidia), do the package swap (emerge -aC > nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx && emerge -a nvidia-drivers), then restart X > (/etc/init.d/xdm start). Then once X is back up, and everything > running correctly, do your -uDNv world upgrade. OK it's underway.... the system is headless right now (in the server room) so I just opted for a straight upgrade of all.... thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
