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On 25/02/21 08:45, hitachi303 wrote: |
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> Am 25.02.2021 um 02:43 schrieb Grant Taylor: |
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>> I need to update a system that hasn't been updated in 337 days (March |
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>> 24th 2020. -- Life has been ... trying. |
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>> What is the best way forward? |
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>> It seems as if there have been a lot of changes in the interim; glibc, |
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>> Python 2.7 being deprecated, default Python going to 3.7(?), other |
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>> breaking changes.... |
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>> Is there a way that I can sync portage to something from April, May, |
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>> or even June of 2020, do a full update (including "-DUNe @world")? |
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>> Iterating through multiple rounds to get current? |
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>> Any help would be appreciated. |
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> I found it to be helpful to de-install as many programs as possible |
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> before starting the update and the first emerge --sync. This reduces the |
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> amount of conflicts by a considerable amount. Stuff like libreoffice or |
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> thunderbird and so on and all of their dependencies. Everything your |
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> system does not need to run but what you need to be productive when you |
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> use your system. I use -av --depclean for this. |
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> Also there is something in the gentoo wiki about upgrading old or too |
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> old systems. |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_Gentoo#Upgrading_from_older_systems |
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I'd do something a bit like that. The trick is to do the ABSOLUTE |
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MINIMUM each step. |
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Can you "emerge portage"? Given the elephant in the room that is all the |
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python changes, if that works you're probably 90% of the way there. |
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Do you need to update the system profile? Update it to a very basic |
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profile and "emerge @system". NO --deep, NO --new-use, nothing like that. |
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If portage says it can update some things but not others, then tell it |
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to update what it can. Normally I'd "emerge -C" any blockers, but with a |
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minimal system that's probably not wise. |
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Once that's done, select your real profile that you want, and again do a |
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basic "emerge @system". Followed by "emerge @world". |
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Now do your full-blown "emerge --deep --new-use", depclean, new kernel, |
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all that sort of stuff. |
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Cheers, |
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