On 4/8/24 10:03 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > the upgrade on my old laptop with two 2.7GHz Dual-Core Skylake proces- > sors took slightly more than 2 hours for the manual upgrading of "bin- > utils", "gcc" and "glibc", and slightly more than 21.5 hours for the fi- > nal upgrade of "@world", which had to process a total of 1061 packages. > I'm wondering whether a fresh install from a stage 3 "tar" ball would > have been faster?
If you're okay doing a fresh install from a stage3 tar, which is faster at least to install the base system because it is all precompiled and you are not building the packages yourself, then I would assume you're also okay doing the update using the gentoo.org official binhost. They're both just the binaries that Gentoo's release automation builds for you. Extracting a bunch of gpkgs is much faster than compiling them, and not too much slower than extracting a single stage3 tarball. It also has the advantage that for amd64, more than just the stage3 package set can be sped up like this -- and you don't have to rebuild the installation, recreate @world, backup and restore user data, etc. Just enable the binhost and then do the same -e @world you were doing without the binhost. :) > My first Gentoo installation on this laptop back in mid 2019 used pro- > file 17.1 (which is still marked "experimental", by the way). Now, less > than five years later this profile set is deprecated. Is five years a > common intervall between enforced Gentoo profile upgrades? Well, 13.0 -> 17.0 -> 17.1 -> 23.0 so I suppose you could say they are fairly long intervals, yeah. As far as it being marked experimental: it was dropped from stable during the 23.0 announcement, but is being marked as stable again: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/35871 Rationale: """ Making 17.1 exp immediately gives the impression that it's formally deprecated, which it isn't yet. """ -- Eli Schwartz
OpenPGP_0x84818A6819AF4A9B.asc
Description: OpenPGP public key
OpenPGP_signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
