On 2015-08-04, Andrew Savchenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2015-08-04, Felix Miata <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on an
>> > old Athlon, which means no sse2, and kernel 2.6.37. It coexists in
>> > multiboot
>> > on one HD with 12 installations of Fedora and openSUSE. I'd like to upgrade
>> > it rather than installing fresh,
>>
>> Can we ask why?
>>
>> > if it's doable.
>>
>> It probably is (for some degnerate value of "doable").
>>
>> My gut feeling is that a fresh install is going to be a _lot_ easier
>> and faster. A fresh install will take a couple hours.
>
> With all userspace software?
No. I'm just talking about the basic OS stuff.
> No way on 32-bit Athlon. I have Athlon-XP. Even with distcc to
> Core2Duo it takes about 10 days of compilation time to build all
> stuff, I'm not counting time to fix all failures here. Well, I have
> >3000 packages installed...
He's going to have to compile all the user-space stuff either way
(upgrade or fresh install), so how long that takes is moot.
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