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From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade using binary packages
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:12:43
Message-Id: 20070425100409.db3db1e1.hilse@web.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Upgrade using binary packages by "holla.net@gmail.com"
1 Hi,
2
3 On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:53:54 +0530 "holla.net@×××××.com"
4 <holla.net@×××××.com> wrote:
5
6 > I have an underpowered system which runs mythtv.
7
8 Machine architecture?
9
10 > 1. On a i686 machine generated the binary packages using tips
11 > from this list..
12 > [...]
13 > 5. Almost at the end of the glibc emerge , 'Illegal instruction'
14 > errors start appearing...sweet
15 >
16 > I understand that a stage3 tarball is essentially a binary upgrade.
17 > But using this method I thought I could do an incremental upgrade.
18 >
19 > So what is wrong with this approach ?
20
21 Nothing. It works just fine (I did this enough times before). You just
22 probably didn't match the CFLAGS and/or MMX/SSE USE flags to the
23 "underpowered system" but compiled your binaries for the faster
24 architecture.
25
26 -hwh
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