On 2/25/21 2:51 AM, Michael wrote:
It would probably be better even with a lot of customizations. ;-)
Please elaborate on what "better" means in this case. I'm thinking that
you might be meaning "faster" and / or "easier" (as in less effort).
At least it /should/ be better in terms of time and effort spent.
Maybe.
A reinstall in this context is not a wholesale replace.
~blink~
It implies obtaining the latest Stage 3 archive from a mirror,
but retaining part of your current installation. Your /home, /etc,
/var/lib/portage/world, plus any databases e.g. in /var/lib/mysql/
and your kernel config will be retained from your existing system and
will not be replaced. Back these up first along with any particular
customizations you have made, before you untar Stage 3, so you can
restore them.
Ah. You seem to be talking about what I would call an "in place
upgrade" for Windows. As in stalling n over top of n-1 or n-2. That's
definitely less disruptive than I was thinking. I was thinking that
fdisk and / or mkfs would be involved.
Then rsync portage, update all your @world packages and build a new
kernel (make oldconfig). Spend some time merging existing application
config files with etc-update to make them compatible with the latest
versions of these packages, reboot and hopefully that should be all
there is to it.
I may end up /needing/ to go that route. For the moment, I'm going to
try the incremental updates.
Yes, it would have been, but what is the benefit of updating multiple
packages many times over, instead of doing it just once?
In some ways, this is a learning experience. As in it's a proof of concept.
The computer in question spends 2/3 of it's life doing nothing but
idling a few programs. So, it spending time compiling and producing
heat is not a bad thing in this case. Especially when there's 10" of
snow on the ground. ;-)
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
