On 15/03/2026 18:50, Dave Sizer wrote:
On Sat, 14 Mar 2026, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
As some know, on my old and new rig, I compile my updates in a chroot
environment. Then I copy the binaries over and use the -k option on my
running OS. That way I don't have a crash when one program is updated
and another it depends on is not yet updated.
[...]
I was surprised to read this... is such a process really necessary when
emerging package updates?
I am pretty new to gentoo, but I assumed that this was something that
portage handled somehow already, although I admittedly didn't really
look into the details of how.
Portage has improved a lot of late. But there are probably still some
rough edges. I had a minor nightmare a month or so ago updating my
laptop. I'm expecting a major nightmare when I try to update my desktop
once I fix it.
Gentoo is a rolling release from source, so things can go wrong. And if
you leave too long a gap between updates, they usually do. But you
should always be able to recover.
Cheers,
Wol
