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On Monday 31 January 2011 19:57:01 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Monday 31 January 2011, Andrei |
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> Brezan |
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> did opine thusly: |
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[snip ...] |
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> > Is it possible to update this system? If yes please shed some light or |
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> > point me in the right direction. |
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> It's certainly possible to update the old machine, but the real question |
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> is, do you want to go through all that effort? |
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> You will probably have to deal with multiple situations that follow this |
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> pattern: |
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> some package version X needs to be upgraded to version x+2. But there's |
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> some other package that prevents you doing this immediately as there are |
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> blockers in place. So you upgrade the other package, then upgrade the |
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> first one to version X+1. Then do it all again to finally get the first |
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> package to version X+2 |
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> You also have python-2.4 in there which needs to go to 2.6. Ouch. I have |
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> horrible visions of running python-updater multiple times.... |
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> Gentoo shares its roots with FreeBSD but running Gentoo daily is always |
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> more involved than with FreeBSD, especially cases like this. You cannot |
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> just upgrade from eg Gentoo-5 to Gentoo-6 as these concepts do not exist. |
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> It is so much easier to just backup your data files and re-install, then |
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> restore the data. It'll take a few hours, trying to upgrade might take |
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> days. |
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> If you want to try, start with "emerge -avuND system", get that to complete |
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> and take it from there. |
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Only to reinforce what Alan says. Sometimes even a month or two is enough to |
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cause headaches if cornerstone packages of the toolchain have been updated |
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more than once. |
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Unless you want to undertake this for self-punishment purposes, it will be |
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much easier to back up /home /etc and /var/lib/portage/world from the current |
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system and reinstall using the last two directories to minimise manual |
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configuration of your box. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |