-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 February 2004 12:25, Kevyn Shortell wrote: > one thing I forgot to add in favor of a separate stable branch, This > would allow 1 year out of date or older machines, to be able to be > upgraded to the latest versions using emerge -up world. > > Currently you cannot easily do this. Too many things have changed both > with portage, and in the profiles. I've tried it 3 times with zero > success, twice on ppc, and once on x86. > > It was a very frustrating experience, to say the least.
Indeed making sure that the upgrade works is a non-trivial undertaking. Just like indeed updating is a non-trivial undertaking. I have done similar things, and while it is possible to do an in-place upgrade it is indeed non-trivial and not something we should expose users to. Paul - -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAH497bKx5DBjWFdsRAoNCAJ9nB5zv9DaMccKoTzv0zkif0RHb9gCfd6m+ KE9mX3Cto9GYeFh+GapblWM= =lwFu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
