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. > > Bye... > > Dirk >
But not everyone uses paludis. So those that don't do it this way. I agree it is the safest way. Dale :-) :-)
