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"Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@×××××××.net> posted |
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1162146694.4486.5.camel@×××××××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Sun, |
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29 Oct 2006 10:31:34 -0800: |
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> Yes, I am running ~amd64 (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" |
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> in /etc/make.conf.) I also changed to the 2006.0 profile, although I've |
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> forgotten how I did that. |
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FWIW, I update profiles when or somewhat before they go public, so have |
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been on 2006.1/desktop for some time now. |
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I /think/ it covers changing profiles in the manual, either that or in a |
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howto somewhere, but normally, it's just make sure you are up2date where |
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you are (emerge --sync, emerge --newuse --deep --update world, |
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revdep-rebuild, preferrably at least look at emerge --pretend --depclean |
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and either unmerge the ebuilds or add to world as needed, then do another |
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revdep-rebuild), point your /etc/make.profile symlink at the new profile |
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desired, and do another emerge --newuse --deep --update world to update to |
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anything the new profile changed. |
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Of course, those emerges should be previewed with --pretend --verbose |
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first, to see what it's going to do, so nothing unexpected hits you in the |
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face. That's PARTICULARLY true with the first one after updating the |
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profile symlink, as until you start merging stuff, no harm done and it's |
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easy to reverse if necessary, but it might not be so easy after you start |
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merging stuff. |
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Not all profile updates are routine, however. 2006 has been pretty |
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smooth, but for us folks on Gentoo/amd64, the 2004.3 and 2005 profile |
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updates were rather major, as they involved rather large changes to the |
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way multilib was handled, and if the update wasn't done following the |
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instructions precisely, it could (and did) leave people with broken |
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systems. Some of them worked their way out of the mess. Others gave up |
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and decided it was easier to start over from a fresh stage install. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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