On Sunday 09 October 2005 00:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My system has developed serious problems related to the emul libs.
> The advice given as a reply to my bug has made the system impossible
> to upgrade using emerge. It is possible the problem dates back to the
> 2004.3->2005.0 upgrade, I don't know.
I had a lot of problem upgrading from 2004.3, that made my system unable
to compile toolchain properly.
I experienced any kind of misterous erorrs and rebuilt my system many
times. In the end was a very very idiot error on my side. When it was
removed the upgrade was really smooth and following one to 2005.1 was
so even that I hardly noticed it...
Are you sure it don't wort a try? If you post any details maybe someone
can help without rebuilding from scratch; and, believe me, it's much
more instructive!
> Is there a way to build a "from scratch" 2005.1 system over the net
> without having to download and boot from a CD? Will it leave my user
> directories alone? The installation docs assume that you don't have a
> runnig gentoo system and start with a boot CD.
There are a lot of other possibilities...
In addition to other methods posted I would say you can do something
useful (depending on your problem) even without repartition...
Unpack a stage 3 in a folder, mount $PORTDIR $PKGDIR $DISTDIR on it,
update and then extract the packages tou need with quickpkg (if you set
buildpkg FEATURES in /etc/make.conf, it's faster).
When I lastly decided to rebuild my system I again used a rather
aggressive method:
make available two partition and rsync their contents. At this point
mount the one to upgrade, save /etc and unpack a stage3 over it
(overwrite files with same name), edit /etc files from saved one,
edit /etc/fstab and lilo or to boot from it, chroot into the new
partition and update lilo (lilo -v, I don't know what you have to do
with grub...). It's quite a dirty way, but it is really fast (rsync
just what is really needed)
Anyway I think the best thing to do is try here to debug you problem
before restart from scratch.
HTH...
Ciao
Francesco
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