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On Thursday, 25 February 2021 04:29:25 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: |
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> On 2/24/21 9:16 PM, John Covici wrote: |
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> > Unless you have a lot of customizations, reinstall would be much |
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> > better. |
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It would probably be better even with a lot of customizations. ;-) |
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At least it /should/ be better in terms of time and effort spent. |
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> I'd really rather not do that. I'm more likely to leave this system as |
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> it is and plan on upgrading it some time in '21. There's considerably |
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> more to it than I want to wholesale replace. |
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A reinstall in this context is not a wholesale replace. It implies obtaining |
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the latest Stage 3 archive from a mirror, but retaining part of your current |
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installation. Your /home, /etc, /var/lib/portage/world, plus any databases |
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e.g. in /var/lib/mysql/ and your kernel config will be retained from your |
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existing system and will not be replaced. Back these up first along with any |
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particular customizations you have made, before you untar Stage 3, so you can |
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restore them. |
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Then rsync portage, update all your @world packages and build a new kernel |
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(make oldconfig). Spend some time merging existing application config files |
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with etc-update to make them compatible with the latest versions of these |
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packages, reboot and hopefully that should be all there is to it. |
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> Besides, wouldn't each of the incremental processes over the last year |
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> have been possible? ;-) |
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Yes, it would have been, but what is the benefit of updating multiple packages |
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many times over, instead of doing it just once? |
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