On Saturday 13 February 2010 00:52:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:21:18 -0800, Kyle Bader wrote: > > >> Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation? > > > > > > tar up /etc. > > > > Make sure the tar can extract on another system. Backups that haven't > > been tested are not backups! :D > > /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do just what the OP > wants, rebuild everything without touching the configs. > > Of course, a backup of /etc is always a handy thing to have around anyway,
For this case, it's probably easier to just tar /etc/ and untar it back later. The OP then doesn't have to deal with 600+ conf-update complaints -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
