Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do you make a gentoo system confirm to a release?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:07:51
Message-Id: 200612191401.16832.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How do you make a gentoo system confirm to a release? by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 On Tuesday 19 December 2006 13:12, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 12:06, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > But, if you insist, you can do this:
4 > >
5 > > 1. Change your CHOST in /etc/make.conf
6 > > 2. Change the /etc/make.profile symplink to point to the profile of
7 > > your choice in /usr/portage/profiles
8 > > 3. emerge -e system ; emerge -e world
9 >
10 > Whoa! Your instructions for changing CHOST are incomplete! There's a
11 > guide for that. Refer to it! Make sure to read the warnings in it.
12 >
13 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml
14
15 You are quite correct.
16
17 In my defense it's something I only ever do once per machine and then
18 forget all about it, so it's easy to forget about the issues involved
19
20 alan
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