On Tuesday 10 March 2009 17:34:31 Douglas J Hunley wrote: > On Tuesday 10 March 2009 10:51:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave > > > it a quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying > > > to make it work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or > > > not? Thx > > > > You have not given sufficient information for even a half-way decent > > answer. So I will thumb suck: > > > > Is this an install from 2005 that has not been updated since? If so, > > forget it, reinstall. > > > > Is this an install from 2205 that has been updated regularly? If so, > > what's the problem? > > > > Is this some arb install from some arb point in time that is running a > > 2005 profile? If so, change the profile and emerge world. > > > > Some other interpretation that has never crossed my bow? > > It's the first. The box was installed with 2005 S1 and never subsequently > touched and now I've inherited it. Sorry for not specifying that.
No problem. I think it was Dale that already told you what to do: reinstall. It's far easier, and you really don't want to go through the pain of the modular X upgrade, the expat upgrade, KDE monolithic to meta ebuilds and the changes to PAM (just to name a few). Besides, I don't think anyone here remembers anymore how to get through all that :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
