Am 25.02.2021 um 02:43 schrieb Grant Taylor:
I need to update a system that hasn't been updated in 337 days (March
24th 2020. -- Life has been ... trying.
What is the best way forward?
It seems as if there have been a lot of changes in the interim; glibc,
Python 2.7 being deprecated, default Python going to 3.7(?), other
breaking changes....
Is there a way that I can sync portage to something from April, May, or
even June of 2020, do a full update (including "-DUNe @world")?
Iterating through multiple rounds to get current?
Any help would be appreciated.
I found it to be helpful to de-install as many programs as possible
before starting the update and the first emerge --sync. This reduces the
amount of conflicts by a considerable amount. Stuff like libreoffice or
thunderbird and so on and all of their dependencies. Everything your
system does not need to run but what you need to be productive when you
use your system. I use -av --depclean for this.
Also there is something in the gentoo wiki about upgrading old or too
old systems.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_Gentoo#Upgrading_from_older_systems
