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>> >> >> I've looked over this: |
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>> >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml |
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>> >> >> |
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>> >> >> but I'm still not sure if I can choose any of the above. |
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>> >> > |
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>> >> > ... why? Do you have a specific question? Did you even bother to try |
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>> >> > to choose one? |
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>> >> I read a while back that changing from certain profiles to certain |
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>> >> other profiles is impossible without a complete reinstall. I'd like |
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>> >> to change to hardened/amd64/multilib but also have the option to |
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>> >> switch to default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop if I have problems with a |
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>> >> hardened profile like I do on my laptop. Can I do all that? |
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>> > Wow, why couldn't you have said that in your first post? It would have |
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>> > saved a round trip. Also, and I'm probably nit-picking here, but |
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>> > usually when I see a "I heard that" or "I read a while back" my initial |
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>> > thought is "What is your source" because a lot of times people will say |
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>> > things and have no idea wtf they're talking about (myself included). |
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>> > I couldn't find anything to support that, in fact the official Gentoo |
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>> > hardened docs seem to indicate you *can* switch to hardened (though you |
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>> > should probably read the docs yourself) but you basically need to |
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>> > recompile *everything* after switching to hardened. You should read the |
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>> > hardened docs [1] and probably ask on the gentoo-hardened ML. |
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>> > However if you just want to switch from 2007.0/desktop to 2008.0/desktop |
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>> > that's perfectly fine/possible. If people had to re-install every year |
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>> > when a new profile came out I think they'd get ticked off pretty quick. |
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>> I'm really surprised to hear that. Can I switch my laptop from a |
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>> hardened profile to a non-hardened one? I know I've been told I can't |
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>> do that. |
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>> You think an 'eselect profile set 2 && emerge -e world' will |
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>> accomplish the entire thing? |
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> no, you have to do -e system first because system does not belong to world |
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> anymore (for a couple of month it does not belong to world anymore. 6 or |
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> something like that). |
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So a complete system recompile now requires 'emerge -e world' and |
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'emerge -e system'? |
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- Grant |
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