[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading from 2005 S1 to 2008.0?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-03-10, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> Douglas J Hunley wrote:
>> Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it a
>> quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make it
>> work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? Thx
>
> If it were me, I would save the world file, /rtc and /home and
> just reinstall.  There are several updates that would be
> pretty extensive and tedious to say it lightly.  I think in
> the long run, a reinstall would be much faster and easier.
>
> Giving a little more thought, maybe you should not even save much of
> /etc either.  The make.conf file may be OK but I suspect there are huge
> changes to everything else too.

Save the old /etc somewhere.  You might not be able to use most
of the files as is, but there are a lot of little pieces of
information in them that you'll need.  Cutting/pasting them
into the new install is way easier than figuring everything out
again from scratch.

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