Re: [tlug] Looking for advice on the best way to rebuild a gentoo box

[Alain Hoang <hoanga@example.com>]

Romans Malinovskis wrote:
> > I am tempted to try doing a :
> >
> > emerge -Duave world
>
> I'd suggest you
> [chroot idea snipped]

	That sounds like a really good idea actually!  As long as you have the 
disk space this sounds like a good way to ensure all packages are working.

> For a box over 1y old without updates i would be scared myself to do 
> regular upgrade, however gentoo is much nicer than binary distributions 
> when it comes to upgrades.

	I'm not sure I fully agree with this.  Debian has been very well 
behaved when it comes to upgrades if you're following a more 
conservative branch.  And I've done this quite a few times in FreeBSD 
with few problems.   But that's neither Linux nor a binary distribution.


Alain