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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:49:25
Message-Id: 200804300749.17519.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 by Alan McKinnon
1 Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon:
2
3 Some small corrections:
4
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 tree.
12
13 > > How might I manage to change the current profile from x86/2006 to
14 > > x86/2008
15 >
16 > ln -s /var/portage/profiles/default-linux/2008.0/desktop
17 > /etc/make.profile
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19 This is a link to a directory, so if it already exists, the correct options
20 would be "-sfn". Otherwise you'll end up with something you don't expect.
21
22 Bye...
23
24 Dirk
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