Ed W posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:33:43 +0000 as excerpted: > I think I have mostly upgraded my machines, but I completely agree - I > sometimes let some old virtual machines sit unbooted for a year and then > suddenly want to use them and bring them up to date and occasionally > this can be a right old pain in the derrier...
Surely, if you've let it go for a year, it's about as easy to reinstall from a new stage-3 as it is to try to update from where you are? At least that's a reasonably tested path, while trying to upgrade from a year out isn't going to be well tested at all. Plus, with the weekly stage-3 builds, you're pretty much up-to-date on at least the core packages, as soon as you've unpacked the stage-3. Sure, you then have to rebuild with your personally selected C(XX)FLAGS/USEflags to get the customization that most of us run Gentoo for, but at least you're working with relatively recent and well-tested versions, not trying a virtually untraveled and untested upgrade path, so if there /are/ any problems, they're very likely to be happening to others as well, and there will be answers out there ready to be applied, something that's not necessarily the case with year- out tree-only upgrades, as there may have been several upgrades in the mean time, with most folks tackling one at a time, and very few waiting a year and trying to handle all at once. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
