Re: Making a partition larger without affecting my OS.

On 3/17/26 2:55 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 3/15/26 2:50 PM, 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.
>
>
> Gentoo automatically handles ELf sonames, via make.conf(5) ->
> FEATURES="preserve-libs", e.g.
>
> libfoo.so.2 -> libfoo.so.3
>
> During updates, if one program uses libfoo.so.2, portage will upgrade
> and install libfoo.so.3 but not delete libfoo.so.2 until the program
> which needs it, gets rebuilt using libfoo.so.3 (hence no longer needs
> the old one!)
>
> It is not generically possible to solve all issues, especially languages
> like python can only have one version at a time.
>
> Running programs don't usually break. Programs that fork child processes
> may break, and newly started applications may break, if it is not
> covered by FEATURES="preserve-libs".
>
> Binary-only distros solve this by only "breaking" for a minute or so
> while installing prebuilt binaries. Gentoo lets you choose, of course. :)
>
>


This is why I chose to do my own builds and then emerge the binaries.  
Since it solved my problems, I just keep doing what works.  That way I 
shouldn't have problems even if they are rare.

It may not be needed but given the volume of data here, I try to play it 
safe, despite having backups.  :-)

Dale

:-)  :-)