Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: > > Download the 2008 minimal install cd and install. > > Frankly, updating a 2006 install to 2008 is counter-productive. You'll > have a much easier time doing a fresh 2008 install.
Why? If he kept his box up-to-date, there are just going to be some slight changes in the default use flags and some virtuals, probably not all that much to re-emerge. That's the beauty of gentoo: Continuous updating making big-bang upgrades unnecessary. Incremental changes are (usually, except when sombody decides to shuffle baselayout all around) small and can be dealt with easily. If you have kept your box up-to-date even on a 2006 profile, you will be current ebuild-version-wise, there's no need to throw that away. This box, for example, has been continuously kept up to date since Gentoo 1.4, before profiles were numbered by year (I think that was in 2004). Not a single reinstall was necessary, or even "more productive" than a simple update. Of course, I emerge --sync and emerge -auD weekly. -- [email protected] mailing list
