On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:19:48 +0200 Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there! > > Yes, there are still gentoo machines out there running libexpat-1, > and I am upgrading one now. I survived several of those upgrades yet, > but those were PCs I had better access to, and where a huge > revdep-rebuild was no big problem. > > But this machine here is slow, and I do not have powerful distcc > hosts for it. And it is powered off in the night. But it should come > up back and be able to be used. > > Couldn't I just save /usr/lib/libexpat.* before upgrading libexpat, > start revdep-rebuild, and put the old libraries back, so all > applications stil have their libraries until revdep-rebuild has > finished?. > > Wonko > Stupid idea, but would the current ~ portage now make the whole upgrade a lot easier with FEATURES="preserve-libs" ?
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