On Tuesday 29 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to jump an 2006 install up to 2008. I've never made that > big an update without a fresh install.
There's no such thing as a "2006 install". What does exist, is the collection of packages that were on the LiveCDs released in 2006. It's a vital difference as Gentoo doesn't care about versions, just the current collection of packages you might happen to have. You don't "upgrade" as such, thinking in those terms will get you in deep trouble real quick. What you do do is emerge whatever later version of packages you feel like having (within some technical constraints) > What is the smoothest way to do it? change profile emerge --sync emerge -avuND world > How might I manage to change the current profile from x86/2006 to > x86/2008 ln -s /var/portage/profiles/default-linux/2008.0/desktop /etc/make.profile adjust the profile path to suit what you have on your machine, mine is in a non-standard place If you --sync regularly and keep the box up to date you are likely to be severely underwhelmed by what a change in profile will do: usually not very much. The profile defines some default USE flags and the collection of packages that make up the system set (about 60 packages or so). It will define things like coreutils, nano etc must be present, sometimes with a minimum version. These are just defaults, if you configured them explicitly, your changes will override the profile. Chances are you already meet most of the minimum requirements for even the latest profile so emerge -avuND world will likely do not much. If it does give output, study it carefully and adjust your USE to suit your requirements better than the profile, then re-run the emerge. Of course, if you haven't updated the box since 2006, then you are in for a fun ride. I recently updated a box 6 months out of date and also removed everything resembling gnome at the same time. It took 4 days and many failed builds. It would have been quicker to reinstall from stage 1... I didn't reinstall because I'm a pain loving masochist with a point to prove. You should take note of this error of mine and learn from it ;-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
