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On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 04:06:40PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> That's why I said "may". I haven't attempted that migration manually, so |
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> I don't know how easy or difficult it would be. You may be able to do |
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> that, but you will be basically on your own to figure it out. |
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I did it on a really old box yesterday. |
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It's a little bumpy since I can't reboot the box all yet, so it's not |
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entirely done. |
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21:51:38 up 1035 days, 15:04, 2 users, load average: 2.24, 1.70, 1.31 |
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It went from sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.14-r1 to sys-apps/baselayout-2.1-r1. |
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Still has kernel 2.6.11, glibc-2.10.1-r1, sys-fs/udev-151-r4, sys-apps/coreutils-8.7 |
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Rough guide: |
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1. Make your own /run and mount it beforehand. |
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2. Grab a list of ALL services that are running to a file. You won't be |
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able to do this later. |
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3. Upgrade the package. |
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4. Update your configs, esp hwclock/clock, and ensure clocks are good. |
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5. echo default >/run/openrc/softlevel |
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6. For each service from #2, "touch /run/openrc/started/$SERVICE" |
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7. rc-update -u |
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8. Check that all your services are still good. |
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The kernel/udev/glibc/coreutils upgrade is going to be a little bit more |
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fun. |
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Disclaimer for the foolhardy: I have taken on consulting in the past on |
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upgrading ancient Gentoo servers to latest, with minimal downtime or |
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breakage; my record is a box with updates more than 6 years prior. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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