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From: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating an old version of Gentoo
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:17:06
Message-Id: 20170728091948.00b54545@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating an old version of Gentoo by Arve Barsnes
1 Am Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:14:17 +0200
2 schrieb Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@×××××.com>:
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4 > >
5 > > On Thursday 27 Jul 2017 09:48:43 symack wrote:
6 > > > There must be an easy way to do this. Something like download the
7 > > > latest portage and source package. Untar on live system and
8 > > > rebuild! That would be so amazing if possible.​
9 > >
10 >
11 > It does not seem like the installation is super old, maybe worth a
12 > try to update the portage tree in steps, by pulling from git at some
13 > set intervals, and just do updates after each sync.
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15 Is there a list of portage timestamps which would break upgrading old
16 systems?
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18 My idea would be to download portage trees from specific points in
19 time, run an upgrade, then download the next, until I'm back in a sane
20 state to do normal sync and update.
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24 Regards,
25 Kai
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27 Replies to list-only preferred.