On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:33 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gregory Symons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and didn't want to wait until the 2005.0 stages were released, so I'm > > not entirely sure what I get out of moving to 2005.0. > > The way I see it, you get to upgrade to 2005.1 from a starting point > that is less likely to cause you trouble.
Ahh. Well, then I'm glad I struggled through it:) > Every step you make, without completely breaking your system, towards > the eventual goal of true multilib, is a reward because it gets you > closer to the goal. Only when the goal is reached do the "good > things" start to happen. However, there comes a point when it is > easier to install from scratch than to upgrade. I prefer to go the > other way and keep it much easier to upgrade incrementally. Ok, so 2005.0 isn't true multilib yet, so for things like openoffice I still have to emerge the binaries, which will install the emulation libs, right? > > (However upgrading to 2005.0 did not go smoothly for me, and I nearly > gave up and re-installed. I'm still not sure what I did that I saved > my system. :) ) I know the feeling... for a "stable" release, the migration path sure does have some problems. And unfortunately, I couldn't find any more information on the problems I had than were already in bugzilla. That missing backtick thing was just wierd. Also, I think some of my problems were due to not really understanding what 2005.0 was supposed to achieve. Greg -- [email protected] mailing list
