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Old 02-21-2008, 11:57 AM
Wim Cossement
 
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Default Re: Upgrading GCC questions with emptytree

Wim Cossement wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I followed the Gentoo guide when I upgraded my GCC 3.4 to 4.1, but I ran
> into a problem when emerge -eav world was getting processed.
>
> This caused over 700 packages to be re-emerged, and somewhere in the
> numbers of 400 blas-atlas (or lapack-atlas, I can't remember :-) refused
> to be configured automatically, so I had to do this manually, with
> success, but then emerge --resume wanted to start with last package, so
> I would have the same problem again.
>
> Then I tried to run emerge -DutNav world, but this only wanted to
> upgrade a few packages.
>
> emerge -eav world on the other hand wants to do the whole bunch again.
>
> Does this situation look dangerous to anyone or can I just ignore this.
>
> And what is the fundamental difference between the normal upgrade I run
> from time to time (-Dun/DutNav) and the emptytree way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wimmy


PS: I've ran revdep-rebuild to check for any broken libs and fix them
(since it found a few)!
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