Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

[John covici]

on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon(alan.mckinnon@×××××.com) wrote
 > On Tuesday 29 April 2008, John covici wrote:
 > 
 > > OK, what will I gain if I change the profile from
 > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop to
 > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0  (I don't even have a
 > > 2008.0 -- maybe I need to sync)?  Will it unmaks useful packages or
 > > someting?
 > 
 > diff is your friend here. Both profiles have the same grandparent so 
 > there are just a few pairs of files to run diff on (omitting the 
 > headers and comments). Unfortunately the right hand file name in the 
 > diff output is marked with a ">" which will upset your mailer's quote 
 > tracking :-(   :
 > 
 > alan@nazgul /var/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86 $ diff -r 2006.1/ 
 > 2007.0/
 > 
 > diff -r 2006.1/desktop/make.defaults 2007.0/desktop/make.defaults
 > 5,7c5
 > < STAGE1_USE="nptl nptlonly unicode"
 > <
 > < USE="alsa arts cairo cdr dbus dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam 
 > firefox gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal jpeg kde ldap mad mikmod mp3 
 > mpeg ogg opengl oss png qt3 qt4 quicktime sdl spell truetype vorbis 
 > win32codecs unicode X xml xv"
 > ---
 > > USE="acpi alsa arts cairo cdr dbus dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode 
 > esd evo fam firefox gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal jpeg kde kerberos 
 > ldap mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ogg opengl oss pdf png qt3 qt3support qt4 
 > quicktime sdl spell svg tiff truetype vorbis win32codecs unicode X xml 
 > xv"
 > 
 > diff -r 2006.1/desktop/virtuals 2007.0/desktop/virtuals
 > 4a5
 > > virtual/cdrtools             app-cdr/cdrkit
 > 
 > diff -r 2006.1/make.defaults 2007.0/make.defaults
 > 9,10c8,10
 > < # These USE flags are what is common between the various sub-profiles.
 > < USE="cups gdbm gpm nptl nptlonly ppds unicode"
 > ---
 > > # These USE flags are what is common between the various sub-profiles. 
 > Stages 2
 > > # and 3 are built against these, so be careful what you add.
 > > USE="acl cups gdbm gpm nptl nptlonly unicode"
 > 
 > diff -r 2006.1/server/profile.bashrc 2007.0/server/profile.bashrc
 > 5c5
 > < if [ "${EBUILD_PHASE}" == "setup" ]
 > ---
 > > if [[ "${EBUILD_PHASE}" == "setup" ]]
 > 7c7
 > <       if [ ! "${I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING}" == "yes" ]
 > ---
 > >       if [[ ! "${I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING}" == "yes" ]]
 > 
 > 
 > Summary: You get a few extra USE flags by default (which you can 
 > explicitly override in make.conf), cdrkit is the default cdrtools 
 > package, and the .bashrc for the shell that portage uses has had some 
 > syntax corrected to a better form.
 > 
 > Chances are you are already using acpi, pdf, svg and tiff USE flags so 
 > these will cause no change if you upgrade your profile. The few 
 > packages in the tree that USE kerberos may need to be recompiled if 
 > this flag changes for you
 > 
 > 

OK, thanks.

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         John Covici
         covici@××××××××××.com
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