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On Tuesday 10 March 2009 17:34:31 Douglas J Hunley wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 10 March 2009 10:51:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave |
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> > > it a quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying |
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> > > to make it work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or |
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> > > not? Thx |
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> > You have not given sufficient information for even a half-way decent |
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> > answer. So I will thumb suck: |
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> > Is this an install from 2005 that has not been updated since? If so, |
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> > forget it, reinstall. |
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> > |
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> > Is this an install from 2205 that has been updated regularly? If so, |
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> > what's the problem? |
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> > |
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> > Is this some arb install from some arb point in time that is running a |
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> > 2005 profile? If so, change the profile and emerge world. |
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> > |
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> > Some other interpretation that has never crossed my bow? |
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> It's the first. The box was installed with 2005 S1 and never subsequently |
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> touched and now I've inherited it. Sorry for not specifying that. |
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No problem. |
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I think it was Dale that already told you what to do: reinstall. It's far |
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easier, and you really don't want to go through the pain of the modular X |
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upgrade, the expat upgrade, KDE monolithic to meta ebuilds and the changes to |
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PAM (just to name a few). Besides, I don't think anyone here remembers anymore |
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how to get through all that :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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