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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:08:49
Message-Id: 1472047708.31785.156.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care by Lars Wendler
1 El mié, 24-08-2016 a las 16:05 +0200, Lars Wendler escribió:
2 >
3 [...]
4 > Oh, and to all new team members:
5 > Please keep in mind to *not* use EAPI-6 for base-system packages yet,
6 > so
7 > we can retain a somewhat stable upgrade path even for very old
8 > systems.
9 >
10 >
11 > Kind regards
12 > Lars
13
14 This reminds me a question I have for some time: is it documented in
15 some place what are the steps to follow for updating old systems? I
16 remember posts like:
17 http://blog.siphos.be/2013/12/upgrading-old-gentoo-installations/
18
19 but I don't know if that is "official" or a workaround or... :/
20
21 Thanks a lot for the info!

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