On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:49 PM, symack <sym...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
It would be wise to upgrade per partes, not doing a large leap from 2010-2015. This may come handy: http://blog.siphos.be/2015/01/old-gentoo-system-not-a-problem/