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On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2015-08-04, Felix Miata <mrmazda@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on an |
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> > old Athlon, which means no sse2, and kernel 2.6.37. It coexists in multiboot |
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> > on one HD with 12 installations of Fedora and openSUSE. I'd like to upgrade |
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> > it rather than installing fresh, |
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> Can we ask why? |
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> > if it's doable. |
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> It probably is (for some degnerate value of "doable"). |
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> My gut feeling is that a fresh install is going to be a _lot_ easier |
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> and faster. A fresh install will take a couple hours. |
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With all userspace software? No way on 32-bit Athlon. I have |
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Athlon-XP. Even with distcc to Core2Duo it takes about 10 days |
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of compilation time to build all stuff, I'm not counting time to |
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fix all failures here. Well, I have >3000 packages installed... |
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> An upgrade will |
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> take somewhere between a couple days and a couple weeks. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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