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On 08/24/2016 10:08, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> El mié, 24-08-2016 a las 16:05 +0200, Lars Wendler escribió: |
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>> Oh, and to all new team members: |
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>> Please keep in mind to *not* use EAPI-6 for base-system packages yet, |
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>> so |
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>> we can retain a somewhat stable upgrade path even for very old |
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>> systems. |
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>> Kind regards |
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>> Lars |
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> This reminds me a question I have for some time: is it documented in |
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> some place what are the steps to follow for updating old systems? I |
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> remember posts like: |
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> http://blog.siphos.be/2013/12/upgrading-old-gentoo-installations/ |
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> but I don't know if that is "official" or a workaround or... :/ |
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> Thanks a lot for the info! |
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When I got SGI Octane booting Linux again in 2014, I had a dormant ~2009-era |
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system still installed on that machine. Upgrading was...interesting. Entirely |
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doable -- I think I hand-jammed a modern Portage into it to get started, then |
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incrementally step-upgraded the thing over a period of 2-3 weeks until the |
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system packages were fully working. |
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Then I got torched by gcc's PR61538, where someone's upstream change tripped up |
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an atomic fault on the R10000 CPUs these things use, which left me stuck at |
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gcc-4.8.x. That went on for 8 months until someone else upstream accidentally |
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fixed it. Now, I've just got to figure out this irritating 2GB memory DMA bug... |
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But still, depending on the age of the install, it's a task that only the |
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dedicated and OCD should try to tackle. Everyone else is better off salvaging |
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config files by mounting the disks in another system, then nuking the old |
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install from orbit. |
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I'll let you guys now how the next attempt works out, whenever I get my Indigo2 |
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R10000 to boot again. I think the Gentoo install on that machine hasn't seen |
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the light of the Kernel since ~2006. Probably earlier. |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our |
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lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |