On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 07:28 -0800, Grant wrote: > >> I've looked over this: > >> > >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml > >> > >> but I'm still not sure if I can choose any of the above. > > > > ... why? Do you have a specific question? Did you even bother to try > > to choose one? > > I read a while back that changing from certain profiles to certain > other profiles is impossible without a complete reinstall. I'd like > to change to hardened/amd64/multilib but also have the option to > switch to default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop if I have problems with a > hardened profile like I do on my laptop. Can I do all that?
Wow, why couldn't you have said that in your first post? It would have saved a round trip. Also, and I'm probably nit-picking here, but usually when I see a "I heard that" or "I read a while back" my initial thought is "What is your source" because a lot of times people will say things and have no idea wtf they're talking about (myself included). I couldn't find anything to support that, in fact the official Gentoo hardened docs seem to indicate you *can* switch to hardened (though you should probably read the docs yourself) but you basically need to recompile *everything* after switching to hardened. You should read the hardened docs [1] and probably ask on the gentoo-hardened ML. However if you just want to switch from 2007.0/desktop to 2008.0/desktop that's perfectly fine/possible. If people had to re-install every year when a new profile came out I think they'd get ticked off pretty quick. -a
