On 02/26/2010 03:15 AM, bn wrote:
Hi,
I have a stable x86 system that requires still a bit of updating, among
those libtool and gcc. Since I need the system to be usable *now* for
work reasons, I don't feel like updating gcc and rebuilding it all with
an emerge -e system / emerge -e world, but more and more packages want
to upgrade to libtool 2.x
Is it safe to upgrade libtool without (1)rebuilding gcc too and
(2)rebuilding system/world?
I don't know, but for this type of scenario you are better off building
binary packages of everything that need to be updated without actually
installing any of it on the machine. At the end, when all binaries have
been created by portage, you can install them in one go at a convenient
point.
Look up the "--buildpkgonly" option of emerge for this.
