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Grant, I've had a similar problem when I installed 2008.0 hardened instead |
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of the desktop. Here is a link to the post: |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713346.html |
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I would suggest that after you select your desktop 2008.0 profile to run the |
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following: |
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emerge --sync && emerge -uDNav world |
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--Riv |
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> >> I've looked over this: |
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> >> >> |
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> >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml |
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> >> >> |
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> >> >> but I'm still not sure if I can choose any of the above. |
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> >> > |
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> >> > ... why? Do you have a specific question? Did you even bother to try |
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> >> > to choose one? |
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> >> I read a while back that changing from certain profiles to certain |
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> >> other profiles is impossible without a complete reinstall. I'd like |
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> >> to change to hardened/amd64/multilib but also have the option to |
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> >> switch to default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop if I have problems with a |
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> >> hardened profile like I do on my laptop. Can I do all that? |
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> > Wow, why couldn't you have said that in your first post? It would have |
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> > saved a round trip. Also, and I'm probably nit-picking here, but |
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> > usually when I see a "I heard that" or "I read a while back" my initial |
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> > thought is "What is your source" because a lot of times people will say |
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> > things and have no idea wtf they're talking about (myself included). |
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> > I couldn't find anything to support that, in fact the official Gentoo |
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> > hardened docs seem to indicate you *can* switch to hardened (though you |
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> > should probably read the docs yourself) but you basically need to |
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> > recompile *everything* after switching to hardened. You should read the |
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> > hardened docs [1] and probably ask on the gentoo-hardened ML. |
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> > However if you just want to switch from 2007.0/desktop to 2008.0/desktop |
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> > that's perfectly fine/possible. If people had to re-install every year |
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> > when a new profile came out I think they'd get ticked off pretty quick. |
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> I'm really surprised to hear that. Can I switch my laptop from a |
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> hardened profile to a non-hardened one? I know I've been told I can't |
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> do that. |
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> You think an 'eselect profile set 2 && emerge -e world' will |
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> accomplish the entire thing? |
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> - Grant |
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