On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon:
Some small corrections:
What is the smoothest way to do it?
change profile
emerge --sync
emerge -avuND world
First sync, then change profile. Remember, the profiles are in the
I'd like to jump an 2006 install up to 2008. I've never made that big
an update without a fresh install.
What is the smoothest way to do it?
How might I manage to change the current profile from x86/2006 to
x86/2008
That option is of course not available currently at
/usr/portage/profiles.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to jump an 2006 install up to 2008. I've never made that big
an update without a fresh install.
What is the smoothest way to do it?
Download the 2008 minimal install cd and install.
Frankly, updating a 2006 install to
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to jump an 2006 install up to 2008. I've never made that
big an update without a fresh install.
There's no such thing as a 2006 install. What does exist, is the
collection of packages that were on the LiveCDs released in 2006. It's
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:31:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How might I manage to change the current profile from x86/2006 to
x86/2008
Change the /etc/make.profile symlink or use eselect profile.
That option is of course not available currently at
/usr/portage/profiles.
2008 hasn't been
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:31:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How might I manage to change the current profile from x86/2006 to
x86/2008
Change the /etc/make.profile symlink or use eselect profile.
That option is of
Neil Bothwick wrote:
2008 hasn't been released yet. Switch to 2007.0 for now, then it will be
less of a change when 2008.0 is released.
It was released on April 1st. ;)
Be lucky,
Neil
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:35:53 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
Hmmm. I may have read this latest post just in time. My system
contains
/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop
Ah, they've moved it! The other profiles are in
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux, that's why the
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
Hmmm. I may have read this latest post just in time. My system
contains
/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop and I had just
linked /etc/make.profile to it and synced up. I was about to emerge
world -- it was
going to
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, 21:00, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I rattled off the path to profiles from memory in my previous post
without actually checking what I had on the machine :-)
When I went to look for it, I didn't find a 2008.0 profile at first -
that took a 'find' command. I see now I have:
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me
off as useful important stuff just *goes away*
I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have
found out easily all the available profiles by doing eselect
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me
off as useful important stuff just *goes away*
I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:57 PM, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me
off as useful important stuff just
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:18:47 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have found
out easily all the available profiles by doing eselect profile list:
True, but Gentoo allows, even encourages, working at the lowest level
without helpful tools get
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, John covici wrote:
OK, what will I gain if I change the profile from
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop to
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0 (I don't even have a
2008.0 -- maybe I need to sync)? Will it unmaks useful packages or
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, John covici wrote:
OK, what will I gain if I change the profile from
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop to
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0 (I don't even have a
Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon:
Some small corrections:
What is the smoothest way to do it?
change profile
emerge --sync
emerge -avuND world
First sync, then change profile. Remember, the profiles are in the tree.
How might I manage to change the current profile
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