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Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: |
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> Download the 2008 minimal install cd and install. |
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> Frankly, updating a 2006 install to 2008 is counter-productive. You'll |
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> have a much easier time doing a fresh 2008 install. |
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Why? If he kept his box up-to-date, there are just going to be some slight |
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changes in the default use flags and some virtuals, probably not all that |
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much to re-emerge. That's the beauty of gentoo: Continuous updating making |
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big-bang upgrades unnecessary. Incremental changes are (usually, except |
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when sombody decides to shuffle baselayout all around) small and can be |
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dealt with easily. If you have kept your box up-to-date even on a 2006 |
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profile, you will be current ebuild-version-wise, there's no need to throw |
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that away. |
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This box, for example, has been continuously kept up to date since Gentoo |
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1.4, before profiles were numbered by year (I think that was in 2004). Not |
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a single reinstall was necessary, or even "more productive" than a simple |
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update. Of course, I emerge --sync and emerge -auD weekly. |
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