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From: hydra <hydrapolic@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:34:44
Message-Id: CAG6MAzRY2PHPWcw5N-dEqAf6jYrC7qOna4hc3r8YzdLdRE7zQw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo by symack
1 On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:49 PM, symack <symack@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > Hello Everyone,
4 >
5 > Last time I did this we experience 3 hour downtime, and it was not fun. I
6 > was blue in the face:
7 >
8 > [1] N 2010-08-01 (2010-08-01-as-needed-default - removed?)
9 > [2] N 2012-03-16 (2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking - removed?)
10 > [3] N 2012-05-21 Portage config-protect-if-modified default
11 > [4] N 2012-09-09 (2012-09-09-make.conf-and-make.profile-move -
12 > removed?)
13 > [5] N 2012-11-06 PYTHON_TARGETS deployment
14 > [6] 2013-03-29 Upgrading udev to version >=200
15 > [7] 2013-06-07 Portage preserve-libs default
16 > [8] N 2013-06-30 Printer browsing in net-print/cups-1.6
17 > [9] N 2013-08-23 Language of messages in emerge logs and output
18 > [10] N 2013-09-27 Separate /usr on Linux requires initramfs
19 > [11] N 2013-10-14 GRUB2 migration
20 > [12] N 2013-11-07 python-exec package move
21 > [13] N 2014-02-25 Upgrade to >=sys-fs/udev-210
22 > [14] N 2014-03-02 Profile EAPI 5 requirement
23 > [15] N 2014-03-16 Ruby 1.8 removal; Ruby 1.9/2.0 default
24 > [16] N 2014-11-07 Upgrade to udev >= 217 or eudev >= 2.1
25 > [17] N 2015-01-28 CPU_FLAGS_X86 introduction
26 >
27 >
28 > Grub2: Will this bring us down for days? Is it a hard transition
29 > Udev: Oh what a spider web you weave..... We are using udev 204 right now.
30 >
31 > Please gents, is there a safe and easy way of doing this? I need to update
32 > the system but want to limit downtime as much as possible. Please help.
33 >
34 >
35 > N.
36 >
37
38
39 It would be wise to upgrade per partes, not doing a large leap from
40 2010-2015. This may come handy:
41 http://blog.siphos.be/2015/01/old-gentoo-system-not-a-problem/

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