Re: [gentoo-user] Update gentoo from live usb?

2022-01-30 Thread Michael Jones
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022, 01:36 Andreas Fink wrote: > Hello, > > I have a couple of systems that I do not update regularily (some not > even for years). But then sometimes I feel, hey I should do an update. > I have one master build server which builds packages and keeps them as > binary packages, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Update gentoo from live usb?

2022-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 02:24:32 -0600, Michael Jones wrote: > I strongly recommend against overwriting your system with a stage3. Any > package that has a changed list of files will leave orphans behind. And > finding them all will be pretty dang hard. You can find orphan files with qfile, details a

Re: [gentoo-user] Update gentoo from live usb?

2022-01-30 Thread Andreas Fink
On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 02:24:32 -0600 Michael Jones wrote: > Going forward, you could consider having your build host take a snapshot / > backup of the binpkgs it builds every 3-6 months, with the associated > portage tree, so that you can use those to update your sporadically updated > machines. Y

Re: [gentoo-user] Update gentoo from live usb?

2022-01-30 Thread Wol
On 30/01/2022 17:03, Andreas Fink wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 02:24:32 -0600 Michael Jones wrote: Going forward, you could consider having your build host take a snapshot / backup of the binpkgs it builds every 3-6 months, with the associated portage tree, so that you can use those to update yo