On Friday 13 November 2009 00:46:00 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > > Neil Bothwick schrieb: > >> I'd emerge @system first, then reboot and make sure everything works > >> correctly before updating the rest of @world. > > > > Good point, yes ... hmm, it was half way through @world ... now I do > > @system and will see what happens. Thanks for the hint, I should have > > thought of that. > > I interrupted my @world and finished @system first, rebooted ok, then > finished @world, added some revdep-rebuild-runs on the way (some > stoppers inbetween, but nothing too serious) ... now I am through and > have my complete ~amd64-box. > > So far nearly everything seems to work (only half an hour usage so far, > we'll see ...). I will add another reboot now and have a look at the > minor issues. > > Additional thought: /etc/portage/package.keywords should be useless now, > hm?
No, you will still need it for ebuilds that having missing keywords. For everything else, it's duplication. Test if you need it by: - moving the file out the way - emerge -pv @installed If you get any messages at all before the list of packages, you have stuff to fix -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
