On Monday 31 January 2011 19:57:01 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Monday 31 January 2011, Andrei > Brezan > > did opine thusly:
[snip ...] > > Is it possible to update this system? If yes please shed some light or > > point me in the right direction. > > It's certainly possible to update the old machine, but the real question > is, do you want to go through all that effort? > > You will probably have to deal with multiple situations that follow this > pattern: > > some package version X needs to be upgraded to version x+2. But there's > some other package that prevents you doing this immediately as there are > blockers in place. So you upgrade the other package, then upgrade the > first one to version X+1. Then do it all again to finally get the first > package to version X+2 > > You also have python-2.4 in there which needs to go to 2.6. Ouch. I have > horrible visions of running python-updater multiple times.... > > Gentoo shares its roots with FreeBSD but running Gentoo daily is always > more involved than with FreeBSD, especially cases like this. You cannot > just upgrade from eg Gentoo-5 to Gentoo-6 as these concepts do not exist. > > It is so much easier to just backup your data files and re-install, then > restore the data. It'll take a few hours, trying to upgrade might take > days. > > If you want to try, start with "emerge -avuND system", get that to complete > and take it from there. Only to reinforce what Alan says. Sometimes even a month or two is enough to cause headaches if cornerstone packages of the toolchain have been updated more than once. Unless you want to undertake this for self-punishment purposes, it will be much easier to back up /home /etc and /var/lib/portage/world from the current system and reinstall using the last two directories to minimise manual configuration of your box. -- Regards, Mick
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