[ale] Testing

[Jeff Hubbs]

FWIW, etc-update is being supplanted in practice with dispatch-conf.

J. D. wrote:

> Gentoo can be fun to tinker with and get your hands dirty on.  Here 
> are the emerge steps I use. I found them awhile back, posted by a 
> Gentoo dev on a forum:
>
> # emerge --sync
> # emerge -puD --newuse world
> # emerge -uD --newuse world
> # emerge depclean
> # revdep-rebuild ( if applicable)
> # etc-update (if applicable)
>
> Good times..
>
> J. D.
>
>
> On 11/17/05, *James P. Kinney III* < jkinney at localnetsolutions.com 
> <mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 10:59 -0500, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>
>     > >>
>     > No fair, some of us like gentoo...
>     > Though everything said is not too far from the truth...  :-P
>
>     I have only tinkered a bit with an inherited gentoo machine. It's
>     a nice
>     concept (I was actually looking at that process [build to suit
>     automatically per system] back in '98-'99). But it takes forever...
>
>     > Why you would emerge world is beyond me, but...
>
>     You should try "yum -y update" from a FC1 to FC4 (after adding a
>     _BUNCH_
>     of needed packages manually). Then do it on a remote machine where you
>     have no console access.
>     > I only update packages if a new version have some feature I like or
>     > there is a security issue.
>     >
>     > Calvin...
>     > _
>
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