Hi ! another "hardcore" solution could be to create a chroot fresh installation whithin you import your system's preferences:
- Create directory
- Untar last hardened stage 3
- Copy your /etc in the chroot
- Copy your world file in the chroot
- Copy any kind of data or local aplication to your chroot
- chroot and update your system
- when things is done, test it
- wipe your old gentoo and move your chrooted one on /
that's "hardcore" but permit me several times to ressucite a old gentoo
system.
IF you can't do it, the normal way is:
- Recompile your toolchain by compiling twice this ports:
virtual/portage virtual/os-headers sys-libs/glibc
sys-devel/binutils-config sys-devel/binutils sys-devel/gcc-config
(don't forget to switch your gcc on the way and to clean your ccache if you
use it)
- Recompile your system (emerge -Davut system)
- Finally recompile your world.
TIPS: use of revdep-rebuild and lafilefixer could help on the way...
Hoping that could help you to update your old gentoo.
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 10:55 +0000, Krlis Repsons wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a machine, which hasn't been upgraded for some 2 years or less. It
> has GCC-4.3.4 and now I tried to upgrade to 4.5.2, but something failed. So
> I'm here to ask for the right sequence of upgrades and other actions before
> it's too late...
>
> These actions done already:
> 1. updated binutils,
> 2. updated glibc,
> 3. unmerged and re-emerged libtool (had a blocker),
> 4. tried with the new GCC, but failed with some unclear problems,
> 5. switched to vanilla GCC and now compile glibc...
>
> So have I done something bad or what should I do to be sure that the upgrade
> goes as smooth as possible? Thanks...
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