On November 15, 2004 01:14 am, Ian Bruseker wrote: > So just for kicks today I decided to set up a Gentoo system. I > downloaded the 2004.2 minimal CD, set up my environment and started > from stage 1. It's in the bootstrap phase as I type this (and might > be for a while since it's a 700 MHz Celeron I'm building it on). To > kill the time, I'm surfing, and happen across this news item: > http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8867 Sigh. Now, I know there are > a few Gentoo veterans on the list, so I have a question. It's my > understanding that it's just a little clickety-click, barba-trick (aka > "emerge world") and a few hours (days) of compile time and I'm > upgraded to 2004.3. Am I right?
Basically. The newer release will have a newer portage snapshot, newer sources, and updated config files. emerge sync, emerge system, emerge world and etc-update will keep your system cutting edge, except updating the kernel is a bit more work [though not hard...] > (I'm heading to bed anyway, so it's > no big deal if it wastes the night compiling stuff it doesn't have to, > I'm just curious.) > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
