Hello, I have an underpowered system which runs mythtv. On this there are two partitions one the active and the other spare. Both can boot into mythtv . As this system is running a 2005.October snapshot, i want to do an upgrade using almost all binary packages.
My approach was something like this.. 1. On a i686 machine generated the binary packages using tips from this list.. 2. Boot into the spare partition and set PKGDIR in make.conf 3. Do a portage sync to 2006.1 and start 'emerge -K' of the packages for the 'system' target 4. For 'bash' the error missing symbol glibc-2.4.3 .... occurs So thinking that glibc must be emerged first, I restart the whole process (including copying the active partition to the spare one) then emerge glibc as the first package. 5. Almost at the end of the glibc emerge , 'Illegal instruction' errors start appearing...sweet I understand that a stage3 tarball is essentially a binary upgrade. But using this method I thought I could do an incremental upgrade. So what is wrong with this approach ? regards sathish
