[gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

External Since: Jul 11, 2004 Posts: 336

On Donnerstag 06 November 2008, KH wrote:
> Alex Schuster schrieb:
> > KH writes:
> >> To be on the save side of gentoo Smile

> >>
> >> quickpkg ss com_err e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs
> >
> > Yeah, that saved me some trouble.
> >
> >> imho quickpkg is a good idea whenever changing something which ist part
> >> of system.
> >
> > Or you can put buildyspkg into your FEATURES list in make.conf. Then,
> > whenever a system package is merged, a binary package will be created.
> >
> > Wonko
>
> Wow did not know that. Great option! Does this only do packages for
> system or also for the hole world?
>
> kh

to get packages built for whole world, add 'buildpkg' to make.conf FEATURES.

External Since: Jul 11, 2004 Posts: 336

On Donnerstag 06 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 06 November 2008 08:21:26 schrieb ext KH:
> > Well that's the point. You want to get rid of them. So you are unmerging
> > them. The moment something fails after unmerging and before emerging the
> > new packages, you will be very happy to have your old packages. You just
> > put them pack in place and you have a running system again. It's a
> > seatbelt.
>
> That's why
>
> 1) I use paludis, no seatbelts required. One can safely de-install com_err
> and ss _after_ upgrading e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-libs.
>
> 2) I outlined to first emerge -f e2fsprogs e2fsprogs. It's known that wget
> will fail after unmerging com_err, so the new packages need to be fetched
> first. That's all. No need to make the thing more complicated than it is.

and both have nothing to do with the fact, that it is wise to have a backup of
essintial files in case something goes horribly wrong.

oh, and latest portage can 'break' blocks too....