Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Funny, I sync every few days or so and always do a emerge -uvD world. I >> have less problems with that than just doing a -u world. >> >> Maybe it is when you do things consistantly that keeps things going >> well >> > > and are you doing revdep-rebuilt afterwards? >
I have ran it a few times but it never wants to rebuild anything but gcc, which has been a bug for over a year I think. I did unmask java once and run revdep-rebuild and it wanted to rebuild OOo. That is all I can remember having trouble with. > Last time gwenviev and kipi stuff broke, krita broke and some other stuff. > Krita did not emerge because of some changed symbols, so I had to reemerge > koffice-libs - something revdep-rebuild did not catch. It catches changed > versions, but if a lib is recompiled because of an -r update and there are > symbol problems, revdep will not see them... > I had to rebuild kdepim and a lot of other stuff, just because of that -D > update. It sucks to have to revdep-rebuild a douzend packages. It suckes even > more when half of them fail because of some symbols and you have to reemerge > three or four additional libs, so you can't just let it run unattended... > > In my years of gentoo, -D always caused problems and was almost never worth > the trouble. > I use KDE and have a lot of packages installed and I seem to be having better luck myself. I did used to just run -u world but that was when I ran into trouble. I guess we have something different on our system. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
