Wol wrote: > On 11/05/2025 13:43, Frank Schletz wrote: >> It works for me and looks very straight forward. >> I got a non-systemd system and not that much packages. >> >> Hope you got a clean emerge @world at the beginning. > > Yup I always make sure everything's depclean'd at the end. > > It's now updating stage 1 fine (approx 250 packages), but my usual > backtrack=100 didn't work - I made it 1000 and it's fine. > > Little tip - if you use backtrack I think it comes up with a little > status report - it said something like "backtrack 100/100". I'm > guessing what that means is backtrack was set to 100, and it used 100, > which is why it failed ... useful info if I'm right ... :-) > > Cheers, > Wol > >
That's what I think as well. If you set it to a number and it maxes out and fails, try a higher number. If it fails and didn't reach the limit, well, you got other problems. The thing to keep in mind, regardless of setting, it only uses what it needs. Most of the time, mine shows a status of 1 or 2 and sometimes 3. Rarely goes above that. I just set mine to 500 because I got tired of it running out of room to think and having to change the setting and start over again. LOL Dale :-) :-)
