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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 17:59:18
Message-Id: 1fe577d639a2f71cab9e66ba580563d3021864c0.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system by John Helmert III
1 El mié, 03-11-2021 a las 21:15 -0500, John Helmert III escribió:
2 > On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 12:09:28AM +0000, Sam James wrote:
3 > > On 4 Nov 2021, at 00:02, Sam James <sam@g.o> wrote:
4 > > > > On 3 Nov 2021, at 23:53, Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o> wrote:
5 > > > > Is that where the policy belongs?
6 > > > > If so, shouldn't the council update it based on their decisions?
7 > > > > "patches are welcome" doesn't fit every scenario.
8 > > > Got to agree here. If there's a gap in the documentation,
9 > > > let's file a bug -- irrespective of if someone is going to give
10 > > > a patch.
11 > > > Just commenting this on the ML means it'll get lost
12 > > > and we'll forget about it...
13 > >
14 > > Filed https://bugs.gentoo.org/821553. Please
15 > > feel free to clarify it.
16 >
17 > Thank you! Many of us apparently have differing interpretations of the
18 > policy (and it's somewhat hidden), so a clear policy in an obvious
19 > place will be a huge improvement!
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22 I haven't tried yet as, fortunately, I have been able to deal with the conflicts
23 most of the times but, I was wondering if one workaround would be to simply try
24 to use emerge-webrsync --revert= option.
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26 That way, people could try to upgrade their old systems going from the oldest
27 tree to, for example, the tree from August of this year. Later they could update
28 to a newer snapshot and follow until the end

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