Hello Everyone, Last time I did this we experience 3 hour downtime, and it was not fun. I was blue in the face:
[1] N 2010-08-01 (2010-08-01-as-needed-default - removed?) [2] N 2012-03-16 (2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking - removed?) [3] N 2012-05-21 Portage config-protect-if-modified default [4] N 2012-09-09 (2012-09-09-make.conf-and-make.profile-move - removed?) [5] N 2012-11-06 PYTHON_TARGETS deployment [6] 2013-03-29 Upgrading udev to version >=200 [7] 2013-06-07 Portage preserve-libs default [8] N 2013-06-30 Printer browsing in net-print/cups-1.6 [9] N 2013-08-23 Language of messages in emerge logs and output [10] N 2013-09-27 Separate /usr on Linux requires initramfs [11] N 2013-10-14 GRUB2 migration [12] N 2013-11-07 python-exec package move [13] N 2014-02-25 Upgrade to >=sys-fs/udev-210 [14] N 2014-03-02 Profile EAPI 5 requirement [15] N 2014-03-16 Ruby 1.8 removal; Ruby 1.9/2.0 default [16] N 2014-11-07 Upgrade to udev >= 217 or eudev >= 2.1 [17] N 2015-01-28 CPU_FLAGS_X86 introduction Grub2: Will this bring us down for days? Is it a hard transition Udev: Oh what a spider web you weave..... We are using udev 204 right now. Please gents, is there a safe and easy way of doing this? I need to update the system but want to limit downtime as much as possible. Please help. N.