On 08.01.2015 00:02, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 07/01/2015 22:30, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 07.01.2015 um 20:06 schrieb Tomas Mozes:
Strange, I only have successful stories with upgrading old gentoo
machines. If you have a machine which you update regularly then you know
all the issues
On 2015-01-07 12:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server.
The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh*
I managed to compile basic stuff already ... portage, gcc etc
Now I get errors at emerging packages which is bad.
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Am 07.01.2015 um 13:13 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 13:01:34 +0100, Tomas Mozes wrote:
Try to fetch some older portage snapshots
http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/snapshots/ and update in steps, not
as a 4 year giant leap. Try to fetch
Am 07.01.2015 um 12:52 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Thanks for any pointers!
I *think* I solved it by fixing the binutils-setting ... just testing
... seems solved for now!
Stefan
Am 07.01.2015 um 14:06 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
The tricky one is going to be that persistent interface names from udev
18 months or so back. When you get to that, you'll probably want to
re-read the huge threads from that time, as you only get one chance to
get it right.
One addition:
at the
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
openrc should be seamless. I forget the exact timelines, but IIRC you
will also hit baselayout-2 migration. That one was very smooth and well
documented so you shouldn't have much trouble.
If it is already running
Am 07.01.2015 um 14:28 schrieb Rich Freeman:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
openrc should be seamless. I forget the exact timelines, but IIRC you
will also hit baselayout-2 migration. That one was very smooth and well
documented so you shouldn't
On 07/01/2015 15:19, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 07.01.2015 um 14:06 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
The tricky one is going to be that persistent interface names from udev
18 months or so back. When you get to that, you'll probably want to
re-read the huge threads from that time, as you only get
On 07/01/2015 21:06, Tomas Mozes wrote:
On 2015-01-07 13:47, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 07/01/2015 13:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server.
The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh*
Don't waste your time (you
Am 08.01.2015 um 00:02 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
In my opinion, ansible almost always beats puppet.
Puppet is a) complex b) built to be able to deal with vast enterprise
setups and c) has a definition language I never could wrap my brains
around. It always felt to me like puppet was never a
On 07/01/2015 22:30, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 07.01.2015 um 20:06 schrieb Tomas Mozes:
Strange, I only have successful stories with upgrading old gentoo
machines. If you have a machine which you update regularly then you know
all the issues during the time and so upgrading per partes
Am 07.01.2015 um 20:06 schrieb Tomas Mozes:
Strange, I only have successful stories with upgrading old gentoo
machines. If you have a machine which you update regularly then you know
all the issues during the time and so upgrading per partes leads to no
surprises but the same challenges
Am 07.01.2015 um 17:08 schrieb Rich Freeman:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
It's worth repeating: the customer caused this, he must now feel the
pain and not you.
So, if he made an informed choice and that is what he chose, then that
is how it
Am 07.01.2015 um 13:47 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
On 07/01/2015 13:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server.
The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh*
Don't waste your time (you are already experiencing the full
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
It's worth repeating: the customer caused this, he must now feel the
pain and not you.
So, if he made an informed choice and that is what he chose, then that
is how it has to be.
However, if I were in the position
On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:19:27 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
at the reboot time a fellow IT-guy will be there in front of the console
so if the NIC doesn't come up correctly I will be able to instruct him
to get the box up and reachable for me.
I also use to disable persistent names for
On 2015-01-07 13:47, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 07/01/2015 13:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server.
The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh*
Don't waste your time (you are already experiencing the full reason
I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server.
The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh*
I managed to compile basic stuff already ... portage, gcc etc
Now I get errors at emerging packages which is bad.
Still no openrc installed and the udev-upgrade also
On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 13:01:34 +0100, Tomas Mozes wrote:
Try to fetch some older portage snapshots
http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/snapshots/ and update in steps, not as a 4
year giant leap. Try to fetch snapshot 2011, then upgrade, then 2012,
upgrade... It takes more time, but it should work.
On 07/01/2015 14:56, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 07.01.2015 um 13:47 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
On 07/01/2015 13:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server.
The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh*
Don't waste your
On 07/01/2015 13:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server.
The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh*
Don't waste your time (you are already experiencing the full reason why).
Backup data and configs, reinstall
On Jan 7, 2015, at 14:47, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/01/2015 13:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server.
The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh*
Don't waste your time (you are
Am 07.01.2015 um 14:44 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
On 07/01/2015 15:19, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Seems as if the biggest problems are solved right now?
if you ran emerge -avuND world and portage goes ahead and does it
without blockers, then I'd agree - the major problems are solved.
It's
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