Re: [gentoo-user] Changing profiles

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote:
> >> >> >> I've looked over this:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> but I'm still not sure if I can choose any of the above.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > ... why?  Do you have a specific question?  Did you even bother to
> >> >> > try to choose one?
> >> >>
> >> >> I read a while back that changing from certain profiles to certain
> >> >> other profiles is impossible without a complete reinstall.  I'd like
> >> >> to change to hardened/amd64/multilib but also have the option to
> >> >> switch to default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop if I have problems with
> >> >> a hardened profile like I do on my laptop.  Can I do all that?
> >> >
> >> > Wow, why couldn't you have said that in your first post?  It would
> >> > have saved a round trip.  Also, and I'm probably nit-picking here, but
> >> > usually when I see a "I heard that" or "I read a while back" my
> >> > initial thought is "What is your source" because a lot of times people
> >> > will say things and have no idea wtf they're talking about (myself
> >> > included).
> >> >
> >> > I couldn't find anything to support that, in fact the official Gentoo
> >> > hardened docs seem to indicate you *can* switch to hardened (though
> >> > you should probably read the docs yourself) but you basically need to
> >> > recompile *everything* after switching to hardened.  You should read
> >> > the hardened docs [1] and probably ask on the gentoo-hardened ML.
> >> >
> >> > However if you just want to switch from 2007.0/desktop to
> >> > 2008.0/desktop that's perfectly fine/possible.  If people had to
> >> > re-install every year when a new profile came out I think they'd get
> >> > ticked off pretty quick.
> >>
> >> I'm really surprised to hear that.  Can I switch my laptop from a
> >> hardened profile to a non-hardened one?  I know I've been told I can't
> >> do that.
> >>
> >> You think an 'eselect profile set 2 && emerge -e world' will
> >> accomplish the entire thing?
> >
> > no, you have to do -e  system first because system does not belong to
> > world anymore (for a couple of month it does not belong to world anymore.
> > 6 or something like that).
>
> So a complete system recompile now requires 'emerge -e world' and
> 'emerge -e system'?
>
> - Grant

first system, then world.