On Monday 17 February 2003 07:09 am, gabriel wrote: > can someone out there give me an upgrade from 1.2 to 1.4 how-to link? or > is that even a good idea? i find 1.2 to be wonderfully stable, but want to > compile open office and apparently i need gcc-3.2 for that... so i > figured: why not upgrade? > > is this a good idea? is 1.4 just as stable as 1.2 when we're using an > t-bird athlon 800mhz? > > comments? suggestions? links?
I don't know anything about the upgrade path, but I've been using 1.4_rc1/rc2 for a long time now, and it's quite stable (no different than what you are running now). gcc 3.2.x works for everything I need except mozilla derivatives. Mozilla and its brethren work fine, but a lot of plugins haven't made the transition to gcc 3.2.x yet. phoenix-bin (gcc 2.95.x and compat libraries) works quite well with plugins. kde 3.1 konqueror appears to like most of the plugins as well. My recommended upgrade soultion is to install 1.4_rc2 into a spare partition following the standard install instructions, but don't boot the new system permanently. You can continue to run your current system and emerge everything you need by using the same chroot procedure that the installation document uses. Backup your /home stuff, current /etc config stuff, /usr/local/bin suff, and reinstall any private (non-ebuild) stuff. When your work is completely merged and tested, then you can cut over to the new system. A note: with few expceptions, stick with the stable branch, i.e don't set your make.conf to install unstable packages. If you need a specific series of unstable packages, install only those specific ones manually. LOL, -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2 kde 3.1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
