On Wednesday 07 January 2004 03:02, Alan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:13:19PM -0500, Al Raq wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask.
> > I want to "keep" my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more
> > without reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it
> > possible ???
> >
> > How easy to update gentoo to the next coming realeases with the 2.6
> > kernel. ,gcc, kde, and other major softwares ??
> >
> > In which case(s) am I forced to reinstall gentoo from scratch ???
> > {Suppose that my Hardware is in great condition.}
>
> The only situation that I've seen was in were the gcc/libc updates in
> the 1.1->1.2 and 1.2->1.3/1.4 era of gentoo. Basically because of the
> binary incompatibility of gcc 3.n to 3.n+1 (3.1 to 3.2 maybe, don't
> remember exactly) it was a PITA to do an upgrade, because you had to
> update your entire system from the ground up, and if something went
> wrong you were hooped, so most (myself included) seemed to think that a
> re-install with the newer and more forwards compatible version of gentoo
> (and gcc) was the way to go. There's nothing to say that this won't
> happen again.
>
> As another poster has said the devs do their best, and regular updates
> are going to do you fine in the foreseeable future!
>
> alan
Thank you all for your valuable help !!!
Kind regards.
Al
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