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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:42:05
Message-Id: 200804300841.46399.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 by Dirk Heinrichs
1 On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
2 > Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon:
3 >
4 > Some small corrections:
5 > > > What is the smoothest way to do it?
6 > >
7 > > change profile
8 > > emerge --sync
9 > > emerge -avuND world
10 >
11 > First sync, then change profile. Remember, the profiles are in the
12 > tree.
13
14 Doh. My bad. Thanks.
15
16 > > > How might I manage to change the current profile from x86/2006 to
17 > > > x86/2008
18 > >
19 > > ln -s /var/portage/profiles/default-linux/2008.0/desktop
20 > > /etc/make.profile
21 >
22 > This is a link to a directory, so if it already exists, the correct
23 > options would be "-sfn". Otherwise you'll end up with something you
24 > don't expect.
25
26 Double doh :-)
27
28 Thanks for the corrections - well spotted
29
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