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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 23:56:25
Message-Id: 20150805005600.391f89c9@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation by Andrew Savchenko
1 On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 23:48:16 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
2
3 > > > 2-clone the existing partition to a larger one to be the upgrade
4 > > > target 3-boot the target
5 > > > 4-note that there exists no /etc/portage/
6 > >
7 > > How did you clone it? It appears parts are missing.
8 >
9 > In the old days make.conf and other files were not in /etc/portage,
10 > but in /etc. At least non-optional stuff.
11
12 I know, but
13
14 1) It is unlikely that /etc/portage would be missing
15 2) The move of make.conf to there was a few years ago
16 3) The fact the make.profile was not a symlink points to the cloning not
17 producing a clone.
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20 --
21 Neil Bothwick
22
23 I'm not a complete idiot - several parts are missing.