[OT] Re: Nightly builds?

[Simon Thum]

Magnus Kessler wrote:
> On Friday 06 November 2009, Simon Thum wrote:
>> Rémi Cardona wrote:
>>> from git and completely rebuilt. And with a single command, users can
>>> rebuild all "live" packages.
>> Would you be so kind to explain what exactly you're talking about? I'd
>> be highly interested...
>>
>> (Last time I checked, qlist didn't relate to overlays in any way.)
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
> 
> With portage-2.2 you can do: 
> 
> $: emerge @live-rebuild
> 
> This rebuilds ALL 'live' (*-9999) packages currently installed on a Gentoo 
> system. So one strategy would be to install the live packages from the x11 
> overlay and rebuild them on a regular basis using the above command. The 
> beauty of this approach is that portage still keeps track of package 
> dependencies and rebuilds them in the right order. 
I guess there's nothing in it for lost souls still on portage 2.1?

If no, is it reasonably safe to upgrade?

Cheers,

Simon