On Thursday, 25 February 2021 04:29:25 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 2/24/21 9:16 PM, John Covici wrote:
[snip ...] > > Unless you have a lot of customizations, reinstall would be much > > better. It would probably be better even with a lot of customizations. ;-) At least it /should/ be better in terms of time and effort spent. > I'd really rather not do that. I'm more likely to leave this system as > it is and plan on upgrading it some time in '21. There's considerably > more to it than I want to wholesale replace. A reinstall in this context is not a wholesale replace. It implies obtaining the latest Stage 3 archive from a mirror, but retaining part of your current installation. Your /home, /etc, /var/lib/portage/world, plus any databases e.g. in /var/lib/mysql/ and your kernel config will be retained from your existing system and will not be replaced. Back these up first along with any particular customizations you have made, before you untar Stage 3, so you can restore them. Then rsync portage, update all your @world packages and build a new kernel (make oldconfig). Spend some time merging existing application config files with etc-update to make them compatible with the latest versions of these packages, reboot and hopefully that should be all there is to it. > Besides, wouldn't each of the incremental processes over the last year > have been possible? ;-) Yes, it would have been, but what is the benefit of updating multiple packages many times over, instead of doing it just once?
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